Mobile app developers have a couple of new iOS requirements from Apple this week, while the folks behind TestFlight have introduced a private beta for their new real-time analytics solution.
Apple posted a pair of announcements to its developer portal on Thursday which will affect iOS submissions to the App Store, both effective as of May 1, 2013.
The first is a new requirement which dictates "new apps and app updates submitted to the App Store must be built for iOS devices with Retina display," while noting that "iPhone apps must also support the four-inch display on iPhone 5." We certainly applaud the change -- as quickly as most developers have adopted, there are still too many apps out there being updated without taking advantage of the latest handset, for example.
Perhaps the bigger change comes with Apple no longer accepting new apps or app updates that require Unique Device Identifier (UDID), an effort to increase privacy by curbing rogue developers from being able to track which devices are using their apps.
But developers also got some good news this week, with the private beta launch of FlightPath. The work of leading app beta-testing platform TestFlight, FlightPath promises to bring app data to life in an easy to understand and fully interactive front-page format, all in real time.
"Up until now, it can be a laborious and complex process for developers to use existing analytics tools to learn more about their app’s usage," explains Ben Satterfield, co-founder of TestFlight. "It usually involves digging through multiple pages and then waiting hours to days in order to view specific data. With FlightPath, developers can now do it all on one page, with one click.”
Best of all, developers can use the same TestFlight SDK they're already using to activate FlightPath when an app is submitted to the App Store. Developers are encouraged to sign up now on the TestFlight website.
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