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Framing your app store screenshots with device frames using frameit from fastlane

I have already written about how  fastlane  can make uploading screenshots to iTunesConnect easier and in this post  and in this post I will talk about another one of it's very useful tools i.e. frameit . If you look at App Store screenshots for my iOS app  My Day To-Do , you will see that they look great with a nice device frame around them, something which I achieved using the frameit gem from fastlane. The documentation on frameit as of now doesn't talk about everything and learning how to use it takes a bit of effort which is fair enough I suppose. I mean they gave us a great tool so it is only fair that we contribute to it somehow so in this post, I will talk about what I learned while using frameit to frame my App Store screenshots. There were some rules I had to follow to successfully use frameit for my iOS app and here I will share what I learned so it saves the next person learning to use it some time. Ohh and in my quest to save the next pe...

Automating screenshots upload to iTunes Connect

I have been updating my iOS apps( My Day ToDos and it's  Lite version ) ever since I released it late last year which has been one of the most tedious processes. Actually for me, it's only frustrating when I have to upload a new screenshot for my app, which requires me to drag and drop images to iTunes Connect  for every screen size and every localisation. However recently I came across this fantastic tool for automating that process. That is one of the things that, I will be talking about in detail in this post. Updating iOS apps When I buy an app, I read the description and look at the screenshots and if I like them, then I buy them. As a user the one thing that I would really annoy me would be when the actual app doesn't work or have any of the features in it's description or look anything like it's App Store screenshot.  Since I have an app on the App Store as well, my goal is to not to annoy any potential users who are like me and hence I tend to ke...