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iPhone App Development: The Missing Manual
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iPhone App Development: The Missing Manual

by Craig Hockenberry
May 2010
Beginner
352 pages
9h 44m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Customer Support

As your customer base grows, you'll find that something else grows: support email. Your customers will have problems, and it's your job to address those issues and keep them happy.

Everything Is Perfekt

You did plenty of beta testing and stomped out a lot of bugs: Everything should be perfect, right? Unfortunately, the answer is no. Something always appears in the 1.0 release. As a smart developer, you should plan on having a 1.0.1 release a week or two after your initial release. As much as you'll probably need it, don't plan a vacation in the weeks following your launch.

This maintenance release will address the major issues that your customers find. You may also want to include some simple feature requests that have been suggested by users.

Crash Course

After your customer installs an application, iTunes will begin to collect crash reports that are created on the device. As explained in Chapter 7, these crash reports are generated automatically and contain information that lets you identify the cause. After collecting the reports during sync, iTunes forwards them to a server at Apple.

Each week, your crash reports are analyzed and posted to iTunes Connect for you to download:

  1. Log into iTunes Connect (Sign on the Dotted Line) and choose Manage Your Applications. Select your application from the list to view its information.

  2. Click Crash Reports to view the app's reports broken down by the version of the OS being used.

    If you see "Too few reports have been submitted for ...

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