One of the things I noticed with the iPhone 4 was that the flash could be turned on like a “torch” when you were shooting a video. \u00a0I immediately thought of using it like a flashlight. \u00a0But being busy, and thinking that all the flashlight apps would be updated to use this new feature I initially left. \u00a0A few days later I decided that I may as well try my hand at a flashlight app seeing as there were none in the iTunes store. \u00a0A short big of coding later, I had a basic version working. \u00a0I was not 100% happy with it as you could see the “camera”\u00a0aperture\u00a0image open. \u00a0But it worked. \u00a0I wanted to get iAds built in as it is pretty easy to do that, but did not have time and want to be one of the first apps available to use the flash. \u00a0I submitted the app and the following day the first led flashlight app appeared. \u00a07 days later my app was approved along with about 10 other flashlight apps. \u00a0I had some traction on day one, and six reviews, so I was quite happy. \u00a0Unfortunately on day two the app basically disappeared from review and was now with all the other flashlight apps. \u00a0There are few flashlight apps that are now in the top 25 of utility apps that get all the attention and so now will be downloaded more, and hence will get more attention.<\/p>\n
I have still not managed to figure out that magic formula to get an app noticed. \u00a0I decided to go ahead anyway and build in the iAds as planned and submitted the update to Apple. \u00a0I changed the icon too, hope that will make it more noticeable.<\/p>\n