iOS software advertizing of new version

[theprizerevealed]

I'm trying to find a new way to advertize my apps and it occurred to me to do that in that app itself; as I saw done for other apps. How is that done exactly?

I guess I must update my current apps to include some code so that a popup view controller would show a notification. I suppose too that the code would need to check some server for a list of new apps and send or download some information such as a image file from the server to place in the popup view controller.

Am I guessing correctly? If not, how might something such as that be done?

The only other alternative that I could imaging would be a kind of Credits/Other Apps Available (with a weblink) viewcontroller that could be pressed by a button to trigger and dismiss. Any new apps would be listed on that viewcontroller.

 

[cmaier]

Yes, you would have to update the app. If you are thinking of using nsnotifications, that’s probably against the App Store rules. If you are going to do it only within the app, then you can pop up a view. You could do something like have a version number embedded in the app, and have it ping a server to see if the current version number is different.