With Apple now using some kind of static analysis tool to analyse applications submitted for App Store review, it’s had me thinking: why not let us test with it prior to submission - or have iTunes Connect immediately analyse upon uploading a binary? With it widely commented that the first 8 days of any review are to encourage developer self-moderation and bug discovery, the notion that developers have to wait 8 days for an automated process to run is - quite frankly - ridiculous.
As has been noted elsewhere, developers could indeed work around a desktop version that provides you with a hint of ‘You might want to fix these things’ when building a Distribution build, in an attempt to circumvent the analyser. However, if a developer were to receive an automated confirmation or warning within 24 hours of the initial application submission, it’d at least be a start.
Sidenote: Yes, developers can avoid the use of certain private frameworks (and undocumented methods in public frameworks), however we’re only human and honest mistakes can happen. This suggestion isn’t so much a way to work around deceptive attempts to contravene Apple’s (admittedly wolly, and continually fluid) App Store policies as it is a way to ensure that people who do make honest mistakes don’t wait 8 days to hear about it.
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