Barryrowe / How-To-App-Store

A guide on how to release apps and games for the major platforms and a suite of automated tools for generating correct icon sets and screenshot sizes.

How to App Store

v 0.2 Changelog

A guide on how to release apps and games for the major platforms including tools for generating correct icon sets and screenshot sizes.

This is a community project intended to help developers focus on the fun part of game and app creation - actually working on the project itself!

Guide:

• Platforms:

  • Apple App Store guide

• Scripts:

  • Icon Generator Script

We need your help!

What works now

Tested on Mac OS X :

• Icon generation for web, iOS, and Windows phone 8

How you can help

Please feel free to help with this project, specific needs and features wanted below in the Feature Requests and Contributing sections.

Prerequisites & Installation

• Nothing needed for the guide, it's just for reading, but there are a few steps if you want to use the scripts.

• Terminal

  • If you are using MacOS or Linux you already have this
  • No Windows instructions / build process created yet, help wanted!

• ImageMagick

  • MacOS using Homebrew
    • If you don't have Homebrew it can be installed with this command in your terminal: /usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
    • Once you have Homebrew you can run brew install ImageMagick
  • Ubuntu
    • sudo apt-get install imagemagick

• Clone this repository to your local machine(recommended)

  • git clone [e-mail]:AlexBezuska/How-To-App-Store.git
  • or download the zip (less recommended but it will work)

How to use

Generate app icons:

• Copy your app icon (2048 x 2048 px png format) into the input directory and name it icon.png
• In your terminal move into the root of the How-To-App-Store project ex. cd How-To-App-Store
• run ./build.sh
• A output directory will be created or updated with the output files in their respective subfolders

Feature requests

• Add installation & build process for Windows
• Add Google Play Store guide
• Add Google Play Store icon / screenshot dimensions
• Add Itch.io guide
• Add Itch.io screenshot and gif preview dimensions
• Add Steam guide
• Add Windows Store guide
• Add Windows Store icon / screenshot dimensions
• Add Mac App Store guide
• Add Mac App Store icon / screenshot dimensions
• Figure out base aspect ratios and max sizes for screen shots that a script can use to generate all the other sizes
• Help add github issues for stores and platforms I am missing, data that is missing etc.

Contributing

If you are interested in participating in this project, please feel free to send a bug or feature request by submitting an issue, or submit a PR for me to review.

Versioning

We use SemVer for versioning.

Authors

• Alex Bezuska - Initial work

See also the list of contributors who participated in this project.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.TXT file for details