Hello everyone, This is definitely one of the most important day in my life since my first ever iOS app got approved today on the first try. First and foremost i am thankful to David@Buzztouch for letting us all have such a wonderful tool to create awesome apps for both android and ios platform. It wouldn't have been possible without David to create any of my apps either android or ios. Secondly i am thankful to Susan@Buzztouch. You are such a good friend and motivator. Your support from the day since we know each other has earned a special place in my heart. Your Localization Project has helped me a lot in creating this app. Thanks for testing my app despite it being totally in a different language. Thirdly i am thankful to my friends BTBinny and LA (both BT members) for testing my app when in beta phase and providing valuable suggestions and improvements. Last but not the least thank goes to all the plugin developers who shared their plugins to other BT members through Plugin Market. ABOUT THE APP- Name of the application is Marathi Corner and is available on the appstore as a free app. The app can be downloaded form this link- https://itunes.apple.com/in/app/marathi-corner/id699497848?mt=8 Marathi is a native and official language of the Maharashtra State, India and there are more than 100 million speakers of this language throughout the globe. Also Marathi is my second language. So i decided to create this app which is totaly in marathi language. It would be difficult for most of the users to understand what the contents of this app are since everything is in marathi so i am giving a detail information about this app. CONTENTS OF THE APP- The first screen is a splashscreen which you need to tap to continue (not difficult to figute out ;)). The second screen is the homescreen. This screen has five items in it. First item is the Gaani (meaning songs). Tapping this screen leads you to the streaming marathi songs.The songs are streamed from the online marathi radio station with name Marathi Radio. The second item on homescreeen is Vruttapatra (meaning newspapers) which will lead you to screen having different newspapers. First newspaper is Daily Prahar, second is Daily Lokmat, third is Daily Maharashtra Times (sibling of the Economic Times in which BT was featured few days back) and last one is Daily Sakal. The third item on homescreen is Videos. It will lead you to the youtube playlist of funny marathi movie scenes. The fourth item on homescreen is Chayachitre (meaning photographs). Tapping this item leads to next screen having 3 different albums. First one is the Charolya (meaning four lines / liners). This is like poem or proverbs in four lines. This album is offline all the images are local. The second album is of Diwali greetings. This album too is local. The third album is Natal (meaning Christmas) this album is online album and the images are fetched from my dropbox. The images are HD for first 2 albums and the images in christmas album are of low quality. Fetching hq images takes a lot of time so for trial i put some low quality images in this album. Fifth item on homescreen is Vinod (meaning jokes). This will lead you to custom html screens with jokes in marathi of 3 different characters. The fifth item on homescreen is Aankhin Barech Kahi (meaning more). This has apprater plugin screen, FB page of the app and send via email plugin items in it. Kindly feel free to check out this app. Any review / suggestions on this app would be appreciated. Thank you all.

I know you worked hard on it, and I know what a pain it is to squeeze through the Apple Gauntlet. For that effort alone, you deserve great praise. Congratulations, and I hope to see more of your work in the future! Cheers! -- Smug

Great job! I will be downloading it.

Absolutely fabulous news, Sandeep. Couldn't happen to a better person! John

Rock on, Sandeep! You should be super proud of your accomplishment! Not only have you managed to create an iOS app, but you got it through the Apple reviewers on the first shot, which shows you understand what they're looking for. A great accomplishment all around! Mark

I gave up for the night. A little bird mentioned something about a fun forum post to me. I woke up and found this. YES. @Sandeep: You're a fantastic part of our community (for a few reasons) and we couldn't be happier to see your first ever iOS software. Your gracious thank-you's are appreciated and we'll hope for millions of Marathi speakers form Maharashtra. What the? Super smiling. I'm soooo getting to India someday. Rock on Sandeep.

@SmugWimp- Thank you. Yes i worked hard to have this app released. I encountered problem only with the code signing and profiling. Other than that everything went on smooth. @Adam- Thank you. Do tell me how you find my app. @Higgey- Its been a while since i saw you on the forum. Nice to have you back. @GoNorthWest- Thank you for your kind words. I have to add that your tutorials too helped me a lot in this process. You are a gem in this community. @David @ buzztouch- Thank you sir. Sorry that you could not sleep well last night... (same thing happened to me last night as well and i found the email from itunes stating that my app is ready for sale... i think the same little bird came to you... ;)) With the launch of 5c i see a lot of iPhones coming to asian countries including India where you would only see androids rule. Things are changing here... Good time to make a visit for sure.

Congratulations Sandeep! What an app, just superb. I love the wave transitions and the graphics really stand out. If I can just make two tiny winny critiques: - The radio starts automatically when you launch the screen yet you need to click "stop" to stop it. As a user I feel it should start/stop on opening/leaving the page or play/stop on click the play/stop button. - The graphics are great throughout the app but the icon on the last menu are a bit fuzzy (Apple store, FB, email). Just a minor things but that's just me. I have left a review on the app store (5 stars) Apart from that: कौशल्यपूर्वक केलेले !! That's better mean "well done" or Google gonna hear from me :) Farcat

Congrats @Sandeep! LA

Congratulations Sandeep, it looks beautiful and seems very entertaining!! ...rocking on as usual...

@LA, @Pancho- Thank you guys for your greetings... @Farcat- Hey bro, thanks for having a look at my app and pointing out some improvements. I always take criticism constructively, it helps me in making further improvements. Yes, the "Well done" is correct... no need to complain google this time. ;) Can you tell me where to find out the reviews??? I am new to this and i do not see the review anywhere...

My pleasure my friend :) It takes a few hours for the review to appear (possibly 24h?). You will find them easily just under your screenshots on the app store. Farcat

The Android king has arrived! Congrats SanDeep! Welcome to the Apple Land...your life will never be the same! Absolutely beautiful app! Congrats :) Sheri

@Sheri- Lol! Thanks for your kind words. Yes i bet my life has already changed since the day i found BT...

Congrats Sandeep!! I agree with Sheri, the maestro of Android is here!! :) The app looks great.

Hi Sandeep, A Big Congratulations to You! You have been working extremely hard to get your ios app created, and now it is finally live in the app store. I am very proud of you. Even though I don't have an ios phone, but I managed to get my friend's iphone 5 to download and test it. Things seem to be working perfectly and there is no errors. Well done and keep it up my friend! Best Regards, Tommy

@mysps- Hey, thanks a lot. :) @Tommy- Nice to see you back in the forum. I really appreciate that you downloaded my app and tested it. Thanks a lot for your feedback about my app. :)