Finally got the contract set up with Apple. So my little app appears to be “Ready for Sale” in iTunes Connect, but when I go to search it in App Store, no result matched.

It seems a lot developers are experiencing the same problem here:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1607276&tstart=60

Is this related to a slow updating rate of search index of iTunes Store? I can’t get my app showing up in iTunes Link Maker either.

But it’s possible to reach the app detail page in iTunes via direct link:

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=294454696

You can make your own direct link if you’re experiencing the same problem that app not showing up in search or link maker, just replace the id part in URL with your own app id, you can get it in app details in iTunes Connect.

IMHO, it does take too long time for solo developers on all those non-tech issues. You may not know that I planned to release my app in August! But now it’s November!

Anyway, perhaps what I’ve got is the best I can get, so now I can focus more on tech things to make my app more polished.

Update: AppShopper.com has a page for Gomoku now: http://appshopper.com/games/gomoku

(Thanks Robin Lu!)

I just encountered this problem and finally got it working. Here are some tips if you’ve experienced the same problem:

1. Try create a new iPhone project in Xcode, and your distribution provisioning profile will show up in the new project. Then back to the problematic project, you may get lucky.
2. Enter iPhone Distribution in Code Signing Identity, select Code Signing Provisioning Profile and press delete. Switch to distribution configuration and build, if you got lucky, you’ll be prompted about permission or something Keychain, click Always Allow. After build, you may find distribution provisioning profile showing up.
3. You’ll need to generate and request different certificates for Developer profile and Distribution profile.
4. Actually you don’t need to enter the name part in Code Signing Identity, just iPhone Developer and iPhone Distribution is enough for Xcode to locate these profiles.

Since Xcode behaves strange and different from what Apple describes in program portal guide, this could be a bug and I hope it gets fixed in next version of Xcode. I believe that many people were mad about this.

FENG Hua Jun, the author of several useful Mac OS X applications, has recently launched an iPhone application at the App Store: BlogPress, it’s a comprehensive blog writer for iPhone, with supports of multiple protocols including Blogger, Live Spaces, WordPress, MovableType and TypePad, and it has one special feature: you can embed pictures into your blogging just like in WYSIWYG editor on your PC or Mac.

FENG has done an elegant IME before, which is very popular among Chinese Mac and iPhone users. Even iPhone OS 2 came with official Chinese IME, FENG’s Fun Input Toy is still the fastest on iPhone, many users still jailbreak their phones for using FIT. He really has passion on quality software and I wish him best luck at the App Store.