Apple rejected my app because: "Specifically, we noticed your app provides a poor user experience as the listings consists of tabs displayed in table view that link to pages displayed in web views. The app does not contain enough interactive functionality." I am using the RSS Plugin. My question is ALL RSS plugin have table view that link to web pages. This is how this plugin works. Then how come Apple rejected this plugin???

They may be talking about the entire app itself, dont know, could you post more images please? You would need to add interactive features to the app, like a Quiz if it relates to your app. Hope this helps, Raoul FreeAppMonster.com

From the rejection message, it doesn't look like the rss plugin was the specific issue. Many many posts on this forum about apple's dislike of apps simply linking to webpages and offering little or no interactive functionality.

Yup you need to add more NATIVE functionality, specifically things like quizzes, buttons, rate me, etc. Cheers, David buzztouchmods.com

The brutal honest answer? It looks like, well, nasty listings. Try adding in images as headers and take some time on the formatting. The game changes, almost daily, what was good yesterday is old school today. Try sprucing the RSS feed up and change the formatting a bit. As I mentioned earlier today a walled garden from Apple keeps out the weeds. We've all, well iOS folks had similar rejections, don't take it to heart as such. Apple do want you to succeed, they really do. If you do they do. Look at some listings apps and see what they do. Corcoran report for example. Have a buddy in real estate that us building an app and folks ( users and apple) expect some nice bells and whistles. Keep at it, look at what other apps do and you'll be in. Smiles and best of luck Keith

This is the exact reason for the rejection. Apple also provided a screen shot for this. Here is the full message from Apple. "10.6 We found the user interface of your app is not of sufficient quality to be appropriate for the App Store. Apps that provide a poor user experience are not in compliance with the App Store Review Guidelines. Specifically, we noticed your app provides a poor user experience as the listings consists of tabs displayed in table view that link to pages displayed in web views. The app does not contain enough interactive functionality. Please see the attached screenshot/s for more information. Please evaluate whether you can make the necessary revisions to improve the user experience of your app. If you cannot - or choose not to - revise your app to be in compliance with the App Store Review Guidelines, you may wish to build an HTML5 web app instead. You can distribute web apps directly on your web site; the App Store does not accept or distribute web apps. HTML5 is the major new version of HTML and enables audio and video to play natively in the browser without requiring proprietary plug-ins. Using HTML5, web apps can look and behave like native iPhone and iPad apps, and using HTML5's Offline Application Cache, a web app can work even when the device is offline. With web apps, you have flexibility to deliver as much or as little functionality as you desire. To get started with iPhone or iPad web apps, please review Getting Started with iPhone Web Apps. For a description of the HTML elements and attributes you can use in Safari on iPhone, check out Safari HTML Reference: Introduction."

Seems like the easiest thing to do is add a header image to liven things up, then include icons of each of the properties for sale in the menu.

What he said. @MGoBlue Touched by your post last week. Bless you and yours.

Thanks, @MacApple. Hope you are well. How's your Banksy app doing these days. Fascinating fellow

@MGoBlue, Apple rejected the app because "tabs displayed in table view link to web views" But you are saying to add header image and icons of each of the properties for sale in the menu. Your suggestion will make this screen look "Pretty" but will not change the fact that table view is linking to web views. As per a lot of people on this forum this is the correct resolution. But how can this be?

If you read their message it's about "poor user experience.". Not to be critical, but there is nothing visually appealing about the screen. Add some images and liven it up. I've got 20+ apps in iTunes that all use rss feeds that open to a web view and have never had this issue.

Thanks, @MGoBlue. With Apple you have to be able to read between the line, so thank you again for the explanation. Your advise helps a lot.

I had another doubt. Rss plugin we have a option for header image but we dont have a option for icon image. how i will include icons for each of the properties.

I'm new to the app game. Whats the best way to start? My focus is on Medical apps, Which allows the users to interact, with its applications, give real time diagnoises, which can be fowarded. Directly to Doc or Health Care Provider. I want the apps fucntionalities to perform realtime exams, for the users.

@MGoBlue Still gets me a solid nod from Apple each month, got lucky with that one. 1 yr on and still doing well.

Hey Mac, how ya doin'? Don't know how your Banksy app works, but in the newspaper just this morning were a couple of new Banksy grafs for the olympics in secret locations. Nice and topical. Will your app pick them up in a feed? Might be worth a small promotion, press release or article or something?

Good shout @Raveyd I get google alerts for Banksy and just saw that but hadn't thought to do a wee promo / press type thing. On it. Meant to have push setup in the app but have been slacking recently. App really needs an update. Happy Olympics day!

hehe! Getting quite excited, hope it goes smoothly. It should do, it's almost crippled the economy! Used to make a mint on ebay selling Banksy and Jake/Dinos Chapman oil paintings. Used to get images off the net, send them to China and get oil paintings back. Happy days as a platinum power seller! ..Then they went mainstream and ebay started banging on about copyrights. Meh.

BrillIant! Have a few framed Banksy works in house, he's done so well for me. Had some big eBay adventures myself. Few years back I was selling the Jack Nicklaus banknotes with presentation case and free DVD. I'd have my buddies go round all the banks in Glasgow picking up the limited edition fivers and was getting 60-75 bucks from US buyers. Ah the memories. Ah the money! Harder to make an honest dime these days. Ahem.

haha! Used to love ebay. People would buy anything in the good old days. On another account I used to buy old knackered 7" singles for pennies, spray them with gold paint and stick them in a frame with a band picture. Set the account up with a really professional image. Too professional. I was approached informally by a music memorabilia pub chain to supply 2000 of them. Trouble was, they were made to order and it was just me in the garden shed with dozens of cans of spray paint, a bunch of blu-tac and an old epson printer. Could only deliver a fraction. Was stoned for 2 weeks from the fumes. Still gutted.

Hilarious, love it.

And, @daku7, the original poster asks... "This is how this plugin works. Then how come Apple rejected this plugin???" Apple has nothing to do with plugins, source code, methodologies used to create the experience. I'm not sure what plugin @daku7 is using (probably a third party plugin or you're working in v1.5 that doesn't use the plugin arrangement) but regardless of how it works, if Apple isn't happy with the app, that's it, end of story. This can be incredibly frustrating. In most cases, it's not one single screen that Apple "doesn't like" when they reject a submission. In this case, it's considerate of them to give you such a detailed response and indeed @daku7 may be able to get the creation approved by Apple by changing or removing the RSS > Web View design. The RSS screen we setup a few years ago is not the best solution. In fact, it's one of the reasons it's not included as a plugin in v2.0 - it could use major improvement. A few years ago it was adequate, today, not so much. Apple's especially critical (and so are users) when using RSS to provide content to an app. Why? Because in most cases (like 99%) the same experience could be had by simply using Safari and going to the RSS URL itself. This means that if app owners want to use RSS to provide content to Native apps, they will need to justify it by adding some additional functionality not easily achieved using Safari. This could be all sorts of things and with a little creativity, I'm sure there are tons of ways to improve how RSS stories are experienced. Bye the way, I'm logged in as BigFoot to change things up a bit ;-)