IP Scanner version 2.5 is now available. This minor update includes some performance enhancements, as well as a new option to display the devices list in a larger font.

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The much ballyhooed introduction of static analysis tools to the App Store review process has added new layers of headache for many iPhone developers (us included), but there are signs that this process is being eased a bit. Our most recently accepted update (for our file-sharing app, DropCopy) included the by-now usual ‘unauthorized private methods’ rebuke but this time Apple chose NOT to reject the app. Instead it encouraged us to take care of the unauthorized method issue in our next update. Since these ‘unauthorized private methods’ are almost entirely false-positives at this point (methods that we ourselves created that have analogous names somewhere in Apple’s gargantuan code-base) this is a welcome change of policy on Apple’s part.

DropCopy 1.9 was finally approved in December, 2009!

Our 1.9 release of DropCopy Mobile, including a number of new, oft-requested features (saving to the PhotoRoll, emailing files, and more) and performance improvements, has unfortunately just received its 4th consecutive rejection at the App Store. The first 3 involved the use of Apple-trademarked images (such as representations of the iPhone itself), which many developers have been affected by recently as Apple tightens its submission guidelines. Now, as noted here, Apple is also cracking down on the use of unofficial function calls, such as handy calls to format a date into human-readable form (the officially sanctioned way thinks dates should only ever look like this: “2001-03-24 10:45:32 +0600″). There is a nice function called “descriptionWithCalendarFormat” that lets you specify what parts of the date you want to show, but, well, that’s off-limits.

For many of us long-time Mac OS developers, this is particularly frustrating since many calls that exist for the Mac also work on the iPhone. Unfortunately, since they are not part of the official iPhone SDK, they are disallowed for use in iPhone development. Since these calls are part of code snippets we’ve been using for years, we are often not aware that we are ‘breaking rules’ by using them. As always, all we can do is make the changes that Apple requests and resubmit, which we will keep doing. We’ll keep you posted…

More Info About Mobile DropCopy

DropCopy is now at version 1.5.8. For those of you on Tiger or Leopard, this is a maintenance update, fixing a few bugs that affected individual users with special network situations. For those who have upgraded to Snow Leopard, this release is more urgent as it addresses many of the visual glitches that appeared with Snow Leopard. Please let us know if you still experience any unusual behaviour when running this release under Snow Leopard.

Download DropCopy version 1.5.8