Hi Alex here from rebeloper.com and welcome back to ASD - App Store Domination and
today we are going to talk about iMessage apps. Most importantly we are
going to show you how you can create a simple sticker pack. Well without further
ado let's get started!
Okay, I'm pretty sure that you have noticed on our site or even on other
platforms that I do have a rebeloper messagesX iMessage app which is the
only one on the net as far as I can tell that offers in-app purchases inside
an iMessage app. And that is pretty important because as you know
free-to-play is a huge part of the App Store. What that means is that you can
download for free and try the game and then pay for in-app purchases, if you
wish. The other monetization would be to add in some ads ad networks, AdMob,
Chartboost and so on but inside messages iMessage apps you cannot add any ad.
So it remains down to in-app purchases but as of today this is the only
iMessage app that I do know that has in-app purchases in them. This is the
app Rebeloper MessagesX and it has a lot of features. It has categories and of
course you can choose to have... just put that in there. There we go!
Pretty good stuff! Let me go back here and if I would want to add another one I
could peel that off. I believe, well we are inside an iMessage app but if we
wanted to then we can peel it off and set it as a sticker app. Okay! App behaves
as a sticker pack. Okay! Now that is it but before you buy then you might want
to try out the waters and create a simple sticker pack. That you can launch
on the App Store and sell as it is. You don't add it for free maybe you want
to add it for free but then you don't have revenue but you can launch it
immediately on the App Store. And today we are
going to show you how easy that is. Let me just stop this and let's create a
new file here and it will be a New Project. And here we have our sticker
pack app. Let's choose that one and that's it next and I will just call this...
Let's hit next and drop it on to our desktop. Okay! And as you can see
here we have our stickers.xcstickers. Let's go into that and here
we have a folder a group of a sticker pack. And I will choose my existing
resources. Here we have our stickers and grab all of them and paste them in here.
Okay! Let's just wait for it to populate and there you go we have a lot of
stickers for to be precise. And now what else do we want to do? Well let's
select iPhoneX and build and run. Pretty easy wasn't it?
Okay! Let's test it out so you may see how this looks like. Okay! Let's wait for
it and there we go! We can grab them, add them to our liking.
Let's add this one too. Add a comment: hello.
There we go! This is how easy it is to add a sticker pack! But before I leave
you with that and of course you can now go ahead and put it up on the App Store.
Okay, before we go I want to show you how you can add these animated stickers.
Now these are cold so called APNG animated PNGs. And you can do that from a
various types of files but I will show you now the app that I use and it is
cold Animatrix. It is this one. And it can be found on the Mac App Store.
Go ahead and download it and use it to your need. One word of advice these stickers
need to be quite small so make sure that the size is very very small of these APNGs.
Otherwise that's it you now know how to create a sticker pack and
launched it onto the App Store. Okay! Hope you enjoyed this one. If you
did meet me tomorrow for another awesome ASD tutorial and I will see you in the
next one! Good stuff! Now if you want to see more
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