Some more progress on Masterpiece’s prototype, although I got a little tiny bit lost on a tangent. This week I’m talking about graphics performance and reacquainting myself with OpenGL, and affordance in animation. Also, I found an amusing little piece of memorabilia.

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Well, this week didn’t go quite as planned. I think I broke my own spirit. Oh well! Maybe next week.

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An iTunes Connect screenshot management workflow

Ugh – iTunes Connect is really annoying to use when it comes to screenshots. There’re [some third party tools](http://realmacsoftware.com/blog/mastering-itunes-connect-transporter) [out there](https://github.com/sshaw/itunes_store_transporter), but it was still too hands-on for my workflow.

So I wrote a little script that does the stuff I want. I have a Sketch document that exports all the screenshots, and the script updates the iTunes Connect metadata XML appropriately.

In case it’s useful to anyone else:

Usage:

  1. Work on screenshots

  2. Setup:

    alias iTMSTransporter="/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Applications/Application\ Loader.app/Contents/MacOS/itms/bin/iTMSTransporter"

  3. Grab latest ITMS data:

    iTMSTransporter -m lookupMetadata -u [email protected] -p password -vendor_id APPVENDORID -destination YourApp.itmsp

  4. Open up the metadata.xml and remove the fields you don’t want to change – this is probably going to be the currently-live version, and maybe the product info at the bottom.

  5. Export all the screenshots into the itmsp package folder

  6. Run this tool (update_itmsp_screenshots.php YourApp.itmsp)

  7. Check that everything looks okay

  8. Verify

    iTMSTransporter -m verify -u [email protected] -p password -f YourApp.itmsp

  9. Upload

    iTMSTransporter -m upload -u [email protected] -p password -f YourApp.itmsp

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I’m back, and doing some prototyping this week. Look! It moves!

Stick around (and be sure to subscribe) if you’re interested in trying out the prototype app when it’s ready.

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Nope!

Well…Looks like this week’s a wash – it’s been all taken up with assorted other responsibilities. Next week! I feel good about next week.

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I’ve done some more work on the revised design this week, exploring track screen ideas: editing, and track settings, where you can select between live audio input, Inter-App Audio, and – you’ll like this – MIDI, with a twist. Some fun stuff in here. Lemme know what you think.

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I’m finally getting back to Masterpiece, and taking another crack at the design. Not got much to show yet (mostly due to this week’s brain-deadness), but this week I’m talking about my motivations for this design iteration.

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