Now that you have
the initial version of the application in mind, your development phase
has come to an end. Now, you are starting to
think about releasing your application to
the iOS App Store. Although you learned about
several important steps in the previous lesson regarding prerequisites for
application submission, there are still a
few key things to consider before submitting
your application. Over the next few minutes, you'll explore several
components you need to ensure or correct on your
App Store Connect account. Choosing an innovative
and appealing name for your application is as important as the design and build
up the app itself. When you are designing
your application, the name of the final product
should be considered. Another vital
element is to write a good description for
your application so that potential users have
a sense of what the application is about and
how it will benefit them. Descriptions should be no
longer than 4,000 characters. A good place to start would
be to look for some of the most popular iOS
App Store applications and read their descriptions
for inspiration. Along with a strong
description of your app, consider the keywords you
will select to help place the app higher in the iOS
App Store search engine. Think about what keywords
should be used to easily find and search
for your application. Created keywords will be the words that your
application will be known for and discoverable in the pool of roughly two
million applications. Note that there is 100
character limit on keywords. Because there is
such a high number of applications
on the App Store, you need to really
think about the words that might not be
as commonly used, but also consider
that the words you choose needs to be
related to your app. Apple introduced screenshot
and video elements to help developers showcase their
app to potential customers. Think about what your
primary screenshot will be and what is the most
important feature within your application? Customers are generally
just glancing over the description and might
not read it in detail. A good screenshot
can make up for that and attract the user to
download your application. Let's explore how this
works in practice. After I've configured my
App Store Connect account, I also need to make sure that my Xcode project has several key things
set up correctly too. Firstly, I make sure that
the application identifier, name and version are
all setup correctly. I check that by selecting the project file on the
left side files list. I then choose the target of my application and head to the general tab of the
application settings. There I set my application
display name to Little Lemon. This will be a text
displayed below the application icon after users download it
to their phones. Next, I make sure my
bundle identifier matches the identifier set
in the App Store connect, and I can confirm
it is the same. The application submission to the App Store will fail
if it does not match. I also check if the version of the application
is set correctly. As this is my first submission
of this application, I want it to be 1.0 with
the build version of one. I can see that the
minimum supported iOS version is set
to the latest. As I want more people to have
access to my application, I change it to the 13. This means that even people with an older iOS device will be
able to download and use it. I leave the device orientation
and other settings as is in this section as everything else should be okay by default. Last important thing I need to verify is application icons. To check it I open the
file called assets located on the left-hand side
files tree of the project. I then select the
app icon item from the list and make sure that all the icons are set withinish. As my application will only
be working on iOS devices. I want the setting for iOS on the right-hand side
menu to be set to all sizes and non for macOS
and watchOS settings. I finish my checks by selecting
the accent color item and making sure the correct application accent
color is selected. Having checked the
minimum number of things, my application
should now be ready to successfully submit
to the App Store. These are just some of
the things you need to consider in your preparation
for submission phase. Consider successful applications
in the App Store and become inspired to put that into use for your application.