For some developers, many of which have posted their frustrations on Apple’s developer forums, submitting Apple Watch apps into the App Store is not going so well.
As originally reported by 9to5Mac, some developers that have been trying to submit their Apple Watch apps into the App Store are running into a roadblock. The report indicates that developers are unable to submit their apps due to the first wave approval system incorrectly flagging apps for misusing Apple’s private framework, which is called SockPuppetGizmo.
This specific framework is meant to handle the majority of cross-platform communication between the iPhone and the Apple Watch’s WatchKit apps. According to the report, the system is reporting these apps as linking to non-public libraries, and as a result blocking them outright. As one can imagine, developers are frustrated with the fact their apps cannot be submitted, even if nothing in the way they originally submitted their apps has changed.In the image at the top of this article, which has been denied by the initial automatic system, nothing has changed in the binary from when the app was originally submitted in April. Yet, it has now been denied.
Before apps find their way to the humans that officially approve them for release within the App Store, the system is the first gate in which apps need to pass. This system checks for any private API usage, as well as to automatically syphon through the submitted code. It’s in this specific process that the system is denying application submissions.
At the time of publication, there is no known workaround, which means that developers submitting apps with Apple Watch apps included in the mix are unable to do so.
[via 9to5Mac]
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