Our first App Store Rejection

Well the v1.1 update to our Book of Mormon Trivia game for iPhone has been rejected. I turns out we aren’t alone in this either, Apple has had a change of policy that has affected a lot of users in a similar way. They have some sort of analyzer tool they are using now to search for private API calls (sorry for the developer speak) and it’s being a lot more strict than before which has caused a lot of people’s apps to get rejected.

We’ll be modifying our code and submitting again, but it looks like it will be a couple more weeks before the next version gets released because of this.

[EDIT: It's finally approved! Click here for details]

Binary Seminary and Android

While we wait (and wait) for Apple to approveĀ  BoM Trivia v1.1, we haven’t been resting on our laurels! Our second iPhone application has been submitted for approval, and it’s one that probably has LESS market appeal than our first one. It’s a binary clock! Yes, you heard that right. I wrote this on a whim last Saturday, just because I’m a geek and I felt like it. I don’t expect it to change the world, but I’m proud of it!

Meanwhile, work has begun on our next LDS app for iPhone. I can’t announce the details yet, but it’s going to be a FREE Book of Mormon Seminary related app, and we’re currently waiting to hear back from Intellectual Reserve about our copyright use request.

And finally, probably the biggest news of the week is that we are now officially working toward Android OS as a supported platform! If you’ve not heard of Android, it’s an operating system for cell phones, and will let us push our family friendly apps to more people than just the iPhone alone would allow us. There’s even less Mormon apps for Android than there are for iPhone and we want to change that! We plan on releasing all our apps (or as many as we can) for both iPhone and Android in the future. We’ll keep you updated on our Android efforts as they come.

Book of Mormon Trivia Update Submitted

Book of Mormon Trivia version 1.1 for iPhone has been submitted to Apple for review. We wanted to get it out much sooner, but we ran into a bug that we had to resolve with Apple tech support first.

New in version 1.1:
- Increased the time limits for each quiz to be around 9 seconds per question
- Increased the volume of the sound effects
- Button art added
- Higher res background and plates picture
- Added version number and larger link to about us page
- Fixed a bug that would cause the “Time’s up” message to fire while not taking a quiz
- Added a menu button at the top right during the quiz
- Answers to some questions have been corrected
- Temporarily removed the “get results” page. The page has been not working properly for some users so we turned it off for now to give us time to fix and test. We WILL bring it back though, as soon as we can!

This will be available as soon as Apple approves the update!

Book of Mormon Trivia is LIVE!

It was a long two weeks of nail biting and anticipation, but the day has finally arrived! The first Book of Mormon trivia game for iPhone is available for sale and you can download it here:

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=336615801&mt=8

There are over 200 questions at launch, and more are on the way. We already have new features planned for the next release, and we welcome any feedback!