Thirstysea

We have been, of late, a bit slow on updates here.

But we were far from sitting idle. We have been working very hard on the next release of Fossil and we hope to submit it for review to Apple soon.

We received few review comments for Fossil. Few folks even took out time to write a detailed mail on what they liked and what they may want us to improve in Fossil in future releases. Thanks to all of you for the feedback.

Some of these suggestions are already going to be part of Fossil release 1.1 while some of them have been marked for the future release.

We will come back soon with the news on the release of Fossil 1.1.

I’m sitting on a rock,
minding my own business…
… when suddenly, they’re onto me.

Hello,

At this time, XXXX cannot be posted to the App Store because it is crashing on iPhone 3G running iPhone OS 3.0.1. Crash logs have been attached for your reference.
For more information regarding crash logs:

http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/technotes/tn2008/tn2151.html

One look at the document and I have this empty feeling in my stomach.

… resolving stack trace addresses to source code methods and lines – requires the application binary that was uploaded to the App Store and the .dSYM file that was generated when that binary was built. This must be an exact match – otherwise, the report cannot be symbolicated. It’s essential that you keep each build distributed …

Nobody told me before about dSYM files or atleast I did not hear/read about it. And if its a common knowledge in this part of the world, well, before this, I was working under a rock, tinkering with protocols ..

While the good folks on internet here and here have already taken care of explaining in detail the debugging steps, I still required the dSym file.

It turned out, I had the build files after all for one of my app. I was also able to reproduce the problem by just following the instructions given in the mail.

But IMHO, the rejection mail is too late in the process to let me know that I may need the dSYM file. It can probably be mentioned in iTunes Connect Developer guide so that no one misses archiving the build in the last minute rush to release the app.

In case you did not save dSYM files, here are the options for you:

• Try reproducing the problem using the steps sent in the rejection mail.
• Run instruments or static analyzer tool to flush out any errors.
• If nothing else works, submit again, wait for 2 more weeks for Apple approval (or rejection) (of-course am kidding).

I am excited to announce the release of our first iPhone application Fossil.

Fossil is a time tracking application with a simple and very elegant user interface and loads of features.

Feel free  to drop us your suggestions, anything which may help us in making Fossil even better.