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Our first Flash/AIR Apps (free) in the AppStore for iPad, iPhone, iPod

Forum|Forum|14 years ago
August 18, 2011
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Hi everybody,

our first two Flash/AIR-apps were accepted by apple.

It's an animated children's book for kids age 2-4.

You can download them for free:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/kuckuck/id456666191?mt=8 (German version)

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/frankie-frog/id456886821?mt=8 (English version)

BTW: Feel free to rate the app and leave a comment (if you like it).

Here are some tips:

* Adobe does not support localization yet via the info.Plist. Because of this you can't do a multi-language app and give the app different names for different countries (this is very important, I hope it will be possible soon).

I had to do two versions, one in German und one in English. Apple normaly doen't like this, they say this is a kind of "spamming". I agree, it is bad if you deliver 15 Versions for 15 different languages and you put them all for distribution worldwide.

But I told the reviewers that localization via the plist.info is not possible and because of this there are two versions, and they accepted.

* My app is landscape only, but you have to rotate the screen if the user rotates the device by 180 degrees - otherwise apple may reject the app.

* I'm loading xml-data and pictures (like icons for other apps) from an external server into the app, to promote our other apps. Works like a charm and apple had no problem with this.

* I programmed an audio recorder, now the parents and the kids can record their own voiceover. This voiceover is saved into the storage space for the app, I imposed a limit of 20MB for the recorded audio data. This works fine on all devices (iOS and Android).

But: On the iPod Touch 3. Generation AIR tells me that there is a microphone available, even if the microphone (the Touch 3rd has no build-in micro) is not plugged in. But this is a minor issue, no app is perfect. 🙂

* With AIR 2.6 lot's of things were not possible - AIR 2.7 now is really amazing, I'm working on some new apps with much bigger objects animated in the timeline, and it's really smooth now, without any GPU acceleration at all.

So I really thank all you Adobe developers very much for your dedication and your really fine piece of work - the iPhone-packager must be (in my opinion as a software developer for over 25 years) one of the most complex and demanding things to code ever. I have the greatest respect for you and I hope you continue this. Thanks!

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anthoang

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How is your app doing on the appstore? getting the number downloads you expected?

Also, are you going to do one for the Android Market? I only have an android phone.

appandrewAuthor

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The Android-version was released yesterday, please download and rate (if you've kids):

https://market.android.com/details?id=air.Kuckuck_MULTI&feature=search_result

The iOS versions for iPhone & iPad are really spectacular for Germany, but I'm not allowed to tell the numbers.

For one week now we're the number 1 app in books for iPad (free) and the number 2 app in books for iPhone (free). This is great!

In the US it didn't work so good. We didn't hit the top 10, so after a while downloads started to drop. Damn!

Hey, it's great fun and free! You have little kids? Let them look for Frankie Frog! :-)

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Anonymous

Nice job!

I am wondering what you mean by the following:

"My app is landscape only, but you have to rotate the screen if the user rotates the device by 180 degrees - otherwise apple may reject the app."

Not sure I follow....... Rotation of the iOS desktop is handled automatically(not referring to the app itself) depending on how you hold/turn it, so what exactly do you need to rotate with a fixed orienation app?

I am creating apps with a fixed orientation (portrait). Are you saying that Apple will reject such apps? If you can shed some light on this it would be greatly appreciated!

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josholm

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Hi Super 8030,

you should check the Apple Design Guidelines...

Every App should feature at least both possible views, that means if it is an landscape App you will need to feature both landscape sides.

However, Apple tells you to do so, but there are some Apps that don't offer that feature. Nevertheless there are others that got rejected because of a missing view...

And I am sorry, I was referering to Appandrew in my previous post!

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Anonymous

thanks for the clarification!

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Anonymous

Just downloaded it and it looks great that puzzle took me like 5 minutes, lol.

My first question was going to be why are you not selling it but I see you say its free for a limited time, way to go its certainly worth a couple of bucks.

My other suggestion is have you considered putting it out for iBooks? This can be done through InDesign by making an ePub file. I bet this thing looks awesome on an iPad!!

Also love how to did your App Store screenshots!!

Good luck, please let us know how the downloads/sales go I am very interested in that. Smart putting it out free and then adding a price since all Apple cares about is downloads, as they should.

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josholm

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Hi InklingNest,

I just loaded the App and had a look at it.

I like it a lot. However, on my iPhone 4 (with nearly nothing in background) the audio started to scrub when coming to the third page.

It was when an animation was playing and the voice said something or when the voice and an animal was saying something at once.

I have one question...

How have you done the rotation?

When I (and a lot of other threads here say there are other people with this problem as well) use checkboxes from within Flash the App always rotates, but then quickly jumps back to the previous view when it actually should rotate.

Could you write your way to just rotate on landscape and what you exactly did in Flash (or the XML) and within the publish settings?

For me this is currently the major drawback of making (rather simple) Apps with Flash.

Best regards,

Josh

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Anonymous

Hi Josh,

I think your question is for appandrew I just downloaded his app and was giving him praise

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