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Just was wondering. I've taken a look at the iOS Store object and I'm not sure if it offers this...
I want to put out a 'lite' version of my app from which people can press a button to purchase the 'full' version on the App Store, but I want it to just go straight to the product in the App Store without using in-app purchasing (since I want to avoid any in-app stuff until this Lodsys law suit disappears). Is this possible? Is there something I have missed?
You'd have to put a link to it in your lite app. A button will open that link. Not sure if there's a MMF2 object that will let you do that for the ios exporter though... There might be.
You can use the Open URL action of the iOS object to achieve this.
You must remember to read the iOS store guidelines from Apple.
Some info here:
http://developer.apple.com/appstore/resources/inapppurchase/
http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/NetworkingInternet/Conceptual/StoreKitGuide/Introduction/Introduction.html
You cannot make it an in-app purchase to purchase another application so you must have everything inside your main application and have those features unlocked by the in-app purchase.
Otherwise you will have to just link to the full version of the application in the app-store but you have to maintain two applications: the lite version and the full version as two separate apps.
That's the idea, just was wondering if I could link to it without having to go through the browser...