verifying iOS store receipt on own server
If you have In App Purchases in your iOS app, apple recommends to validate the purchase. There are to ways: first connecting the apple app store directly within your app, and second send a so called receipt to your own server and having your server perform the validation with the App Store server. I want to […]
fetching apple itunes rss feeds as json
if you who have to work with the apple itunes rss feeds generated here http://ax.itunes.apple.com/rss and hate xml parsing just as any one: just replace the “xml” at the end with “json” http://ax.itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStoreServices.woa/ ws/RSS/topfreeapplications/sf=143441/limit=10/xml becomes http://ax.itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStoreServices.woa/ ws/RSS/topfreeapplications/sf=143441/limit=10/json the json files are roughly 1/3 of the size and ridiculously easy to parse. enjoy.