iPhone App name (springboard and target) list of allowed special characters
I'm looking for a set of chars that can be used to include in the app name for app store submission.
So far I know that alphanumeric characters are ok in the app name that is displayed on the springboard Can an app name start with a digit? Can an app name have + somewhere in it? Can it have a ? mark? Can it have dots . or colons : ?
I ran into problems when submitting an app with a + in it AppName+ displayed fine during debugging, but I could not submit it as a package name for the app store.
What about the name used to list the product in the app store?
I know that : is allowed in the app store name What about +,-?/:. ?
I need to understand which characters I can display to the user as the app name on the iPhone and which characters can be displayed in the app store.
For example, my app's springboard name is called CoolApp++ . This is the name that is displayed under the icon. To submit the app to the app store, I need to provide bundle identifier in the form of : com.yourcompanyname.appname
Any input is appreciated!
Answer
An app has 4 names: the product or bundle file name, the bundle ID suffix, the App store name given to iTunes Connect, and the Bundle Display name under the icon. Only the latter 2 names allow special characters and spaces. The first 2 need to be plain ASCII with no spaces. You can set all 4 app names separately, and plenty of apps approved by Apple do have these 4 names all different from one another (as long as they aren't misleadingly different, I suppose).
The Target or Project may try to set these 4 names all the same at the beginning, but they can all be edited and changed to youR preferred, separate and 4 different app names latter.