An overview of App Store rules
Before we dive into the meat of the chapter (on implementing precheck), let's take a moment to go through the app review guidelines, as it will help you understand some of the things that you should normally look out for during the preparation of your app for submission to the App Store. Understanding Apple's guidelines, as well as many of the common pitfalls developers face when submitting their apps for review, will serve you well as an iOS developer in order to avoid many of those issues.
While precheck can and should be leveraged when trying to ensure metadata compliance, this tool should be used in conjunction with, rather than in lieu of, your own common sense and the knowledge this section will outline.
App Store Review Guidelines
The umbrella guidelines that Apple advocate, as part of the App Store Review Guidelines (https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/), are broken down into a few categories:
- Performance related issues
- Security and privacy...