The ever changing process of app submission

Before we move forward in explaining the steps needed to publish your game, we wanted to note a little fact about this subject. This fact is that the exact steps needed to submit our iOS apps for testing or publication is one that changes rather often. Every couple of months this process might change from how we describe it here.

Over the years, since the start of iOS development, Apple has continually made this process easier and more streamlined. Xcode does much more of the signing/provisioning work for us than it did in the past, and the worries of our app taking forever to appear in the App Store are hardly an issue.

For example, when the Swift game PikiPop was submitted in November, 2014, it only took five business days between the day it was submitted for review to when it appeared in the App Store for the public. This review time will vary for each of us, but as long as there aren't any terrible errors or policy violations in our apps, we...