Missing Marketing Icon - iOS Cordova

Asked 19/9, 2017 at 21:26 Answered 20/3, 2018 at 6:2

I get this error when uploading to AppStore:

iOS Apps must include a 1024x1024px Marketing Icon in PNG format. Apps that do not include the Marketing Icon cannot be submitted for App Review or Beta App Review.

Women answered 19/9, 2017 at 21:26 Comment(1)

Oh Images.xassets -> Appicon (dumb Xcode) is where you find it – Women 19/9, 2017 at 21:29

Based on the other answers here, I believe the complete answer is:

If you did cordova platform update ios it will bring you the latest stable version, 4.4.0 as of today, which don't know to add the entry for the app-store icon.

So, what you need to do is:

cordova platform rm ios
cordova platform add [email protected]

and add the above mentioned line into config.xml with a slight modification - use a JPEG to avoid "The App Store Icon in the asset catalog in 'appname.app' can't be transparent nor contain an alpha channel":

<icon height="1024" width="1024" src="icons/ios/icon-1024.jpg" />

As soon as the stable version will become higher than 4.5.1, do not force that 'old' version!

To verify your iOS platform version, look for this line in config.xml:

<engine name="ios" spec="~4.5.1" />

Important! from 4.5.0 and on, the plugin 'cordova-plugin-console' is not supported and not required. You must remove it in order to build successfully:

cordova plugin rm cordova-plugin-console

Plowshare answered 29/9, 2017 at 2:22 Comment(4)

I'm getting the following error message: "Invalid App Store Icon. The App Store Icon in the asset catalog in 'appname.app' can't be transparent nor contain an alpha channel." Any ideas? Our icon does contain transparent areas, we can't remove them (CI). – Micturition 4/10, 2017 at 12:32

I can tell you what I did: I have changed my App Store icon into JPEG so that they can't complain for transparency. it worked. I'll edit my answer with this info – Plowshare 6/10, 2017 at 1:58

Note that if you use cordova platform add ios@^4.5.1 it should continue to update to more recent versions automatically, so the comment about "forcing versions" wouldn't apply. – Sensuous 15/11, 2017 at 11:40

How can I keep the console plugin for the windows platform, while removing it from iOS platform? – Transformer 28/3, 2018 at 7:12

Update to latest cordova-ios version: 4.5.1 and register Marketing icon in config.xml

<icon height="1024" width="1024" src="icons/ios/icon-1024.png" />

Ref: https://github.com/apache/cordova-ios/pull/337

Diecious answered 25/9, 2017 at 5:12 Comment(8)

have the same issue with phonegap. I did update cordova and phonegap, add the 1024 icon in config.xml <icon height="1024" platform="ios" src="res/icons/ios/1024-icon.png" width="1024" /> but still get the error. Any way to do it in XCODE? – Bedspread 25/9, 2017 at 13:33

In xCode you can just drag drop your icon at Resources>Images.xcassets>AppIcon> (App Store iOS 1024pt). – Diecious 25/9, 2017 at 15:13

@Bedspread which version of cordova-ios you are using? It should be [email protected] – Diecious 25/9, 2017 at 15:14

cordova -v return 7.0.1 – Bedspread 26/9, 2017 at 17:15

No, check what is a version of cordova-ios engine you are using? Check for this tag in your config.xml <engine name="ios" spec="4.5.1"/> – Diecious 26/9, 2017 at 17:55

<engine name="ios" spec="~4.4.0" /> how do you update that? – Bedspread 27/9, 2017 at 9:47

Change that value to "~4.5.1" and then remove ios platform and then re-add ios platform. – Diecious 27/9, 2017 at 11:36

Be careful with transparent areas and alpha channel which are rejected on app store upload – Anticlimax 4/11, 2017 at 10:46

For me I did like this.

First, change the icon size to 1024x1024, In yourProject/resources/icon.png.

Then, running this in your terminal.

ionic cordova plugin save
ionic cordova platform rm ios
ionic cordova platform add ios

Finally, IOS platform build successful and auto modifying config.xml successful.

You will see <icon height="1024" src="resources/ios/icon/icon-1024.png" width="1024" /> in your config.xml. Then try upload your project to AppStore again.

Kaleidoscope answered 19/1, 2018 at 9:31 Comment(0)

Open Xcode => Drag your appstore icon into Resources/Images.xcassets/Appicon => Remove any transparency from you image => Use only letters for the name. e.g: appstore.png

screenshot

Zolazoldi answered 4/11, 2017 at 17:32 Comment(0)

You may need add assets.car file witch is required by ios 11 and you can create it with xcode or online tool http://www.applicationloader.net/appuploader/icontool.php

put assets.car file as asset file or image file .

Jurisprudence answered 20/3, 2018 at 6:2 Comment(0)

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