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shrinkURL v1.2 – iPad compatible

A little bit late at posting this, however shrinkURL v1.2 was approved and released to the App Store recently. No new changes except for iPad compatibility.

It's not a huge task in converting an iPhone App (at least certainly not in the case of shrinkURL) to be universal but there are some pitfalls and a distinct lack of documentation knocking around on the subject.

I'm looking at posting about some of those pitfalls and things to watch out for in an upcoming post.

An App for Developers

I don't do App Reviews but this one is worthy of a mention for fellow iPhone and iPad developers, as one of the more frustrating elements of the App Store has to be the lack of information associated with your App(s) in terms of number of downloads/sales and it's ranking in each country.

Yesterday, thanks to a fellow iPhone developer via Twitter, I found an App that goes a long way to giving you this information.

PositionApp by usTwo will allow you to select and favourite your own (or any other) App and review its sales positions in each country over a period of days, weeks or months (as shown in the screenshot below).

PositionApp is very nicely done and available from iTunes

Invalid Binary using pre-release version of the SDK

I came across this message while submitting an update to an Application to make it a Universal Binary for iPhone and iPad.

It seems that because I'm using XCode pre-release 3.2.3 and iPhone SDK 4.0 beta Apple won't allow me to submit any applications, even if I select an earlier SDK as the Active Target. I'd have thought the fact I was informing my Project to use an earlier SDK would have been enough but it seems not and this is just the rules in place by Apple

You can get around this by installing two versions of XCode (beta and release) but for now i'll just revert back to a 3.2.2 install while I'm still actively working on Applications prior to the full release of OS 4.0.