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Basically, yes, wrap it in a WebView. I'd need to see your mobile website to judge it better, but if it looks like a website, Apple might reject it. Your website really needs to look like an app to have some certainty of getting it through if your app only consists of a WebView.

At webtoapp.design we usually include some native components in the apps. Although they might not add functionality (just replaces some website components), they help get the app published.

I guess you'll have to decide based on your hourly rate whether it's worth it to tinker with some self-built solution or if you are also open to going with a finished product. I don't want this to sound too much like an ad, just expanding on the time save (because often you don't think about all the things in advance): - If your client decides he wants push notifications: A finished solution should already have support for that - For Apple, you'll also need to set up your Xcode developer environment and manage all the certificates and provisioning profiles (personally, I found that complicated when I started out). With webtoapp.design we handle all of that automatically (we upload a finished build to your developer account) - not sure if some competitors do that too.

Comment · 2 years ago

I guess you could use this opportunity to update your dependencies and target the latest SDK version.

Comment · 2 years ago

I've never heard of that before. Are your apps just for internal use of your team?

Comment · 2 years ago

I've been working on https://webtoapp.design for for 4 years now (in 10 days). It's my first business, so I've made plenty of mistakes. By now I have someone that handles the easier customer support inquiries and after all the other costs I can live off of it (not an appropriate software engineer salary for Europe, but it's enough).

It can be very frustrating, since I help my customers through the entire app creation and publishing process, so that includes dealing with Google and Apple.

I keep working on it because it's growing slowly but steadily and it provides me a lot of flexibility. I don't know which marketing channels to focus on to speed up growth though, at the moment it's pretty much all SEO.

Comment · 3 years ago

What a stupid requirement. I run an app builder and offer my users plenty of ways to test their app beforehand, but outside of Google Play, since their system is just cumbersome.

This will make it nearly impossible to get an app published as a small business, since who the hell has 20 users just waiting for your app? It's already a huge struggle to help people with publishing their app.

The road to hell is truly paved with good intentions. All the scam apps will have no problem cheating this system, but honest devs will struggle. I can only hope Google reconsiders this requirement, otherwise it might be worth it to push my users more towards alternative app stores. We already support the Amazon App Store and the Huawei App Gallery (which are a lot easier to publish apps in), but the user base is just not there unfortunately.

Comment · 3 years ago

The publishing date of the article is 2017, so pre-ChatGPT. Of course there were spintaxes back then, but those articles were way worse.

Either way, the article seems mostly fine to me.

Comment · 3 years ago

I'm always amazed by how amazing the results are (compared to alternatives), even though it's 10+ year old software afaik.

Comment · 3 years ago

I've been self-hosting this for a year or so and it's pretty neat.

It happens quite often that I need to wait for something which doesn't have a builtin alert.

Currently I'm for example using it to get an alert when a flutter package has been updated on pub.dev

Comment · 3 years ago

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