App keeps getting rejected

Solar2D General Questions/Discussion
#1

Hi there,

An app I made for a client is basically an RSS reader – it pulls data down, including the link and the user can then open the link using native.showWebPopup().

However, the app keeps getting rejected. I rang apple, and they said that my app wasn’t ‘native.’ I assumed all apps made on corona were native?

I think the guy might have meant ‘native’ in the sense that it needs to utilise more of the built in iPhone features, but I can’t think of anything I could add to it, any ideas?
Thanks a lot!!

Max [import]uid: 24641 topic_id: 20669 reply_id: 320669[/import]

#2

My widget based app was just approved the first of the year. I’ve not heard anyone else complaining about apps being rejected because they aren’t “native”.

Is there any more to the reason? When it was rejected you should have gotten an email saying why (or you can see it on the iTunes Connect site). Maybe it might have verbage that might help understand why a little better.

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#3

I also found his wording strange…here is the reason of rejection;

12.3: Apps that are simply web clippings, content aggregators, or a collection of links, may be rejected [import]uid: 24641 topic_id: 20669 reply_id: 81110[/import]

#4

What they mean by ‘native’ is you aren’t pulling the data down with an XML system, reading the data, parsing it and displaying it. It’s just a single webview.
I had an app almost rejected as it only had two webviews: Website & Mobile Twitter webpage. They let it go twice but said it’d not get approved again unless I added more functionality. They think if it’s just one or two webviews you can use Safari and bookmark it like an app. [import]uid: 10389 topic_id: 20669 reply_id: 81111[/import]

#5

but the strange thing is, i am parsing the data! the xml file is parsed and added to a tableview.

Very strange [import]uid: 24641 topic_id: 20669 reply_id: 81114[/import]

#6

Interesting… I have an RSS reader for a site and I’ve not had problems with it. But mine has a little depth to it.

I pull down four feeds and when you tap on a table row, it loads the title description and such into a view, and the reader gets an option to click through to the full article. Mine also has a podcast player built in and it was approved with no problem.

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#7

Hi there,

I feel your pain, I had a similar experience with an app I wrote natively In objective c that aggregated RSS, de-duped and presented information to the user in a relevance view. It also did something akin to the reader functionality (before it existed) in it extracted out just the prose or allowed the whole page to be rendered natively. In my case it was rejected as was infringing copyright…I tried having a dialogue about what RSS is. A little over 12 months later out comes the reader functionality for Safari which strips out just the text…

I would not lose too much sleep over it, just accept sometimes you can’t win :slight_smile:

Best regards,

Ceej [import]uid: 10629 topic_id: 20669 reply_id: 81124[/import]

#8

Long time ago I`ve built one app using other sdk than Corona (of course I did not know Corona that time) and I got rejected always. It was a app based on webviews also, RSS, Social Networks, Flickr, etc…btw Apple said that for apps that only use web you can use Safari for that and so my app that time never got approved anyway. :\
Cheers,
Rodrigo. [import]uid: 89165 topic_id: 20669 reply_id: 81134[/import]