2638 Stickers

May 2019

What's more fun than an iOS iMessage Sticker Pack??? Well, probably lots of things. But at the time (and still now), I thought that creating one of those little iOS iMessage Sticker Pack things that you use every once in a while would be pretty cool.

So I set out to do it for my robotics team. It was actually super easy to do — it was literally just drag-and-drop the images to a folder and Xcode did the rest.

But with all easy things, there were sneaky things too. After importing all of the images, I soon realized that they needed to be transparent so that when a user places it on a text bubble it doesn't look ugly. So into Photoshop I went.

Then, just as I thought I was done, I realized that the larger you made the image, the smaller it appeared when dragged onto a text bubble by the user (weird, huh?). So into Preview to resize all the images I went.

Finally, it was done! I archived the file, uploaded it to App Store connect, waited a few days, aaaaanddd…rejected.

They said that the logo I used for the app was too similar to my other app I had already published, which was a scouting app for iOS. Haha. So into Photoshop again I went, this time to produce a cool sticker-like effect which ultimately allowed the app to get approved!

This wasn't too much of an exciting project, but people on the team definitely do like it and definitely do use it. I still update it time to time with new stickers as well.