Taking screenshots for the App Store (LDS Music for iOS)
We need to take new screenshots whenever we release a version of LDS Music where either:
- the appearance of major screens change, or
- we translate the app into one of the 18 (as of March 2012) App Store languages.
Here is a brief summary of the screenshot process:
- For each language (English, Spanish, Portuguese, and French):
- Take 5 retina iPhone screenshots using the Xcode Simulator
- Take 5 retina iPad screenshots using the Xcode Simulator
- Zip up the screenshots and send them to the tech lead (Hilton Campbell) using Dropbox or some other service
- The tech lead will run the screenshots through the Status Barred app to remove the status bar at the top
- The tech lead will upload the screenshots to iTunes Connect
To complete step one you will need to have a Mac with Xcode 4.3.1 or newer installed. Here are the detailed steps:
- Make sure you have read access to the LDS Music code
- Download the latest LDS Music and required third-party code:
git clone https://code.lds.org/git/LDSMusic git submodule init git submodule update
- Select the LDSMusic-Staging scheme and the newest iPhone Simulator
- Run the app
- If the Simulator is not in retina mode:
- Select Hardware > Device > iPhone (Retina)
- Stop the app in Xcode and run it again
- If the Simulator is not in the desired language:
- Go to the Settings app in the simulator
- Tap General
- Tap International
- Tap Language
- Tap the desired language
- Tap Done
- Stop the app in Xcode and run it again
- Select the desired language in the app:
- Tap the language button in the top-left corner of the app
- Tap the desired language
- Take 5 screenshots similar to those currently showing in the App Store
- Repeat, but using the iPad (Retina) simulator
The screenshots should appear on your desktop. Please label them and put them in folders like so:
iTunes/ iPad/ en/ 1.png 2.png 3.png 4.png 5.png es/ 1.png 2.png etc. pt/ etc. fr/ etc. etc. iPhone/ en/ 1.png 2.png 3.png 4.png 5.png es/ 1.png 2.png etc. pt/ etc. fr/ etc. etc.
Then zip them up and send them to the tech lead using Dropbox or some other service.
This page was last modified on 11 April 2013, at 22:38.