14 DAY TRIAL // Redmond-based software giant Microsoft has announced some new changes made to the application submission process for the Windows Phone Store, including the added option to cancel a submission before the app gets through the certification process.
Apparently, this was one of the most requested features for the Dev Center, since many developers would realize that they needed to change something to their app after submitting it, and had no possibility to do so until after it got through the certification process.
“Previously, after you clicked the Submit button on an app submission in Dev Center, you couldn’t edit it again until it had finished processing,” Rushmi Malaviarachchi, lead program manager for the Windows Phone Dev Center, explains.
“After clicking the button, if you realized that something needed to be changed or there was one more bug that you needed to fix, you’d have to wait until the app submission completed before you could address it.”
Now, however, developers can cancel an app submission from the lifecycle page, which provides them with the possibility to make changes to the software and resubmit it, if necessary.
As soon as the cancel button has been hit, devs will receive a confirmation on the matter, after which they can click on the Edit submission link to make changes to the app and resubmit it.
Another change in the Dev Center is the possibility to change the orientation of screenshots from portrait to landscape and the other way around. Devs will no longer have to make this change in an image editor; now they can do so directly from the Dev Center after uploading them.
Furthermore, the portal will now allow developers to upload screenshots with the highest resolution for apps that support multiple screen resolutions, and will also create the other set of screenshots based on these.
“If you want the flexibility of submitting a set of screenshots per supported resolution, you still have that option,” Rushmi Malaviarachchi explains.