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August 14 2009

Is your iPhone app still “In Review”? Get the App “In Review” Badge!

Download (59KB)

Update: A concise installation guide can be found here.

Update 2: The badge has been updated and that nasty gap is now fixed!

Update 3 (04/09/09): Apple has gotten in touch with me and has provided a reasonable explanation for the delay... I will post about this later on.

On June 29th, after having worked intensely for two days to deliver an iPhone app to a pressed client, I submitted my first iPhone app to iTunes Connect. As of today, this app is still "In Review". The direct result of this was the client's decision to simply drop all future plans of iPhone development. The delay in getting a response from Apple is very... upsetting. ~~I'm just waiting now, curious to discover what future surprises lie ahead of me~~ (See Update 3).

In the meantime, I decided to create an 'App "In Review" Badge' for website owners and developers to use as they see fit. It's free, simple-to-use, and will hopefully allow developers to communicate their frustration towards review delays in a simpler and more passive approach.

Where does this badge work?
This badge works in any environment capable of rendering HTML pages and parsing Javascript. It has been tested in FireFox, Safari, Google Chrome, and Internet Explorer. Warning: In IE, the Badge will NOT have rounded edges.

What is this badge?
The little badge is built entirely in HTML. It can look like any of the following badges depending on how long ago your app was submitted.

How do I install the badge?
There are two ways of installing this badge. You can either download the source files and run the scripts from your server or directly link to nickology.com.

» QUICK INSTALL

In the <HEAD> section your page, place the following line of code:

  <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.nickology.com/projects/app_in_review_badge/v1/nickology_app_badge.js"></script>

Skip to PLACE BADGES

» INSTALL ON YOUR OWN SERVER

Download Nickology App-In-Review (96 kb) files. You will need to unzip this file and upload the folder nj_app_badge to the desired location on your server.
In the source code of the page you wish to display the badge on, link the scripts that you just uploaded:
```
  <script type="text/javascript" src="/js/app_in_review_badge/nickology_app_badge.js"></script>
  <script type="text/javascript">
    NJ_setPath('http://www.nickology.com/js/app_in_review_badge/');
  </script>
```
Replace http://www.nickology.com/js/app_in_review_badge/ and /js/app_in_review_badge/ with the path on your server. If you install this on your server, you must set the path where the directory is located by calling the function NJ_setPath().
Go to PLACE BADGES

» PLACE BADGES

Once you have completed one of the two methods above, you can set up the locations of one or more badges on your page. For every badge that you wish to place, you must create a DIV element like so and give it a unique id attribute:
```
  <div id="counter1"></div>
```
You can also place several badges, anywhere on your page:

» FINAL SETUP
Lastly, you must set up each badge that is on your page. To do so, you must add the following block of code anywhere on your page (but preferably in the <HEAD> section. Here is an example of what this might look like:

<script type="text/javascript">
	NJ_addBadge('counter 1','20090607','','','');
</script>

The values passed to the function NJ_addBadge are:

ID - The ID of the DIV tag that you wish to convert to a badge
Date of Submission - The date on which you submitted your iPhone application in YYYYMMDD form. For example, July 15th 2009 is 20090715
Date of Response - The date on which you received a final response from Apple. This can be left blank if you still have not received a response.
Response - The actual response you received. Put "1" for approved, and "0" for rejected. This can be left blank if you still have not received a response.
URL - Turn the badge into a link. For example, once your app gets approved, you can add a direct link to the AppStore. Or, in the meantime, you can simply provide a permalink to a page or blog entry dedicated to your app. This is always optional.

» FINAL SOLUTION

Please see this page.

» NOTES

There is a debug mode that can be enabled. If you are experiencing problems, enable this mode and you might get some error messages to guide you:
```
<script type="text/javascript">
    NJ_showDebugInfo();
</script>
```
This badge is released under the Creative Commons license. Some rights reserved.

App "In Review" Badge by Nicolas Jouannem is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0 France License.
Based on a work at www.nickology.com.
Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at http://www.nickology.com/.

Feel free to leave a comment should you have any questions or would like a link to your site on this page.

	John
	September 06 2009

hi, good site.

	ArennaGor
	September 06 2009

Hello, i’ve found http://www.nickology.com by using Google or maybe Yahoo, i don’t really remember. Anyways, job well done! It’s really hard to achieve a decent search engine position today, keep it up!