I have an App i am developing. Part of the functionality allows the user to send an e-mail to friends from the App.
In this E-mail i would like to have a link to my App in the iTunes store.
I was wondering if it is possible to do this before your app has been submitted?
Or would i have to send an update as soon as the app is available and has a URL?
Any help would be appreciated
The best way of going about this would be to have your own canonical URL for your app on a domain of your own which redirects to the app store. This could be something like 'http://www.mygreatapp.com/download'. You could set this up with a basic Apache directive or a simple META redirect in an HTML page.
Create a basic holding page at the above URL ('coming soon' etc.) and once the app is approved, it will take only a minute or two to update the page to redirect to the iTunes URL.
Bonus side-effect: you now have a canonical URL which is much easier to type and pass on to others compared to the long iTunes URL.