200 iOS applications by Great Innovus Solutions
Great Innovus Solutions is pleased to announce that we have got approval of our 200th iOS (iPhone, iPad, Universal applications) application submitted for Apple’s iTunes AppStore on behalf of our various clients. We have been working with Apple iPhone/iPad/iOS development platform since its launch in March 2008. We achieved a milestone of submitting 11 apps and all approved for iPad Grand opening in June 2010 (details here).
Great Innovus Solutions have been successful in developing iOS applications that utilize various technologies like: GPS based location, Touch and multitouch interactive applications, Internetworked applications, Open GL based animated applications, interactive ebooks, interactive games (puzzles, board games, bowling games), Accelerator and Gyrometer utilizing applications, camera and photo album applications, general utilities, multitasking applications with background, PUSH notifications, in-app purchases, audio/video recording, video playback, video streaming, social networks, REST, XML and web based applications.
Our experience with Apple has always been pleasant with shortest approval happening in 3 days and longest in 18 days. Nearly 99% of times application we submit gets approved in first review itself, only very rarely our submissions has been rejected (this is large compared to the industry average rejections rate). We have maintained a high acceptance rate with our in-house quality assurance by iterative testing, system testing and continuous review with our clients with nightly builds wherever possible. 8 applications developed by us has been featured in Apple AppStore in various categories, notable mentions are: Cascarone (details here) and Secondtake (details here), other applications are under an agreement of non-disclosure with our clients. Year 2010 alone had highest submissions of nearly 128 applications. Great Innovus would like to thank all our clients that supported and chose to work with us in this opportunity. Last but not the least we would like to appreciate our engineering team that had put tireless efforts in achieving this milestone.
Cascarones, hollowed out egg shells filled with confetti, are very popular during Fiesta and Easter in some parts of the world. It is said that you get good luck if a cascarone is cracked on your head. Our client had an idea to bring this real life fun to the digital world as an iPhone/iPad app.
The idea of the Cascarone app is for people to decorate a virtual Easter Egg on their iPhone or iPad with colors, stripes, and designs. The user can then shake his phone and the egg will crack along with mariachi music playing. This is perfect for any Fiesta party where either you run out of real cascarones or you are at a place where you can’t make a mess! You can also load a friend’s picture into the app and the egg will crack on them!
Cascarone app was built for Fiesta San Antonio (http://www.fiesta-sa.org/) that draws 3.5 million people each year to the event. Thanks to our client Mr. Garrett for considering us to create the app and thanks to the developers at Great Innovus Solutions who have put immense efforts in developing the app on time. Additionally, thanks to Apple for considering the expedited review request and getting the application approved at the beginning of Fiesta.
Finally, we are happy to share that Apple has featured the Cascarone app as a New and Noteworthy app for both the iPhone and iPad in the Family and Kids game sections.
Get Crackin’ with Cascarone app at http://itunes.apple.com/in/app/cascarone/id429918000?mt=8
Cascarone application is also featured in the following magazines:
Wall Street Journal: http://on.wsj.com/fgYh2P
San Antonio Express News: http://bit.ly/kfkHho
Houston Chronicle: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/7519134.html
NowCast SA: http://www.nowcastsa.com/blogs/pinojo/viva-fiesta-cascarone-app-iphoneipad
We are really excited and pleased to announce that our iPhone/iPad universal application ‘Second Take‘ for our client Mr. Garrett got featured on Apple App Store under the New and Newsworthy applications. The application is available for download at http://itunes.apple.com/in/app/second-take/id395854075?mt=8
Thanks to our client Garrett for considering us and providing us an opportunity to work with him. Also thanks to our developers in getting this possible with their best efforts. Kudos to all!
We are proud to announce that Apple Inc, has approved 11 applications for iPad developed by Great Innovus Solutions for the “Apple iPad Grand Opening” on April 3, 2010. Apple had approved only 2,546 apps for the Day 1 sales (source: Fortune CNN) and our contributed/developed apps account to 0.43% of all approved iPads apps for Grand Opening. Also this makes us the iPad developer that got all apps submitted approved for the grand opening that translates to 100% approval ratio. We are very happy to have Apple approve all our apps and having a grand opening for iPad. Most of these apps were started after March 9, 2010 after Apple begun accepting iPads apps for inclusion for grand opening. Our iPhone/iPad development team did a very great job in creating, testing and submitting all these 11 apps, taking part in the review process with multiple builds submission for about 23 days working on weekends too – kudos to our team! Special mention goes to Dileep, Rama Sundaram, Raja for staying late and taking great responsibilities.
A few apps that we are allowed to mention of the 11 approved apps are:
PicPuzzler exclusive for iPad: our in-house iPad, which is a jigsaw puzzle game packed with 155+ photos and ability to load and use album photos as puzzles. Available for sale at Apple App Store for ¢99
Spring Puzzle Book HD: for client Still Motion Media LLC, a ebook for kids and is a popular app in education category for iPad. It also features puzzles and audio in multiple languages together with high resolutions illustrations exclusive for iPad. Available for sale at Apple App Store for ¢99
The other 9 apps are exciting ones but we unable to list them here do to active Non Disclosure Agreements with our clients. 6 of the rest apps belong to one client and they are interactive ebooks, others are: a work out app, a game and an ebook.
Great Innovus Solutions have been a leading iPhone developer since day 1 of the original Apple iPhone SDK tools announcement in March 6, 2008. And now we pride for being an iPad developer starting Day 1 too. We have developed 68 apps for our clients and assisted in over 34 other iPhone apps as support/modules development roles till date. This April 2010 our team are working on 19 other iPhone/iPad applications which are mostly close to completion and ready for submissions. We have expert UI/UX engineers that can produce intuitive interfaces optimized for mobile form factors.
