Devs encouraged to deliver localized App Store metadata in bulk

Aug 23, 2013 11:16 GMT  ·  By

Two brief announcements are available on Apple’s Developer site, one encouraging application sellers to employ the Transporter tool, the other discussing Mac addresses in iOS 7.

Registered developers are told that they can now use Transporter to deliver localized App Store metadata in bulk.

An Apple-developed command-line delivery tool, Transporter can be used to deploy screenshots, rights and pricing, and more, Apple says.

The tool can also find app metadata to correctly format the XML file. Developers looking to employ the tool are encouraged to download the Transporter User Guide.

As far as the second announcement goes, Apple tells developers, “If your apps use the MAC address to identify an iOS device, the system will return the same static value for all devices running iOS 7.”

Application sellers targeted by this announcement are told to update their apps to use the identifierForVendor property of UIDevice.