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…

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