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I dislike the whole app store process in general & can't wait until web apps are mainstream. First you have to download 5GB xcode even if you're just packaging

I dislike the whole app store process in general & can't wait until web apps are mainstream. First you have to download 5GB xcode even if you're just packaging something like a Cordova app. Then you have to login to Apple's developer center & manually upload (or you research 3rd party tools that automate this with unofficial APIs) Then you have to wait anywhere from 1 day to 2 weeks for the app to be approved, then you notice a typo & start all over. Luckily there is a way around this when using hybrid apps, by having your app hot load new JS & HTML.... Meteor does this. Ionic Deploy does this. You can also do it yourself in a few lines of code. Its great being able to just fix a typo & deploy instantly. It is allowed since its considered content updates & not code updates. However you still need app store updates sometimes, like adding a new permission for your app.

threeseed 9y ago
Those hybrid apps have been tried for many years. Users hate them. They are slow, clunky and often do nothing more than just display some static content the same way a web page would. It's actually the type of applications Apple has indicated are going to be banned from the store over the coming months.
- untog 9y ago
  I wonder about this. I suspect people think webview apps are bad because the only apps you know are in a webview are the ones made badly. A properly integrated webview is imperceptible - I've read that Apple uses them in various parts of iOS, and I only ever found out that Instagram uses one for their activity feed when a buggy release had the CSS missing. More broadly, I wish Apple would implement more webapps features simply because a lot of people can't afford to make native apps for every platform. Yes, they're inferior to bespoke iOS apps, but they're better than an app that doesn't exist at all.
- Illniyar 9y ago
  "It's actually the type of applications Apple has indicated are going to be banned from the store over the coming months" What do you mean by that? can you elaborate?, I haven't heard of any such thing and am very interested to find out more.

threeseed 9y ago

Those hybrid apps have been tried for many years. Users hate them. They are slow, clunky and often do nothing more than just display some static content the same way a web page would. It's actually the type of applications Apple has indicated are going to be banned from the store over the coming months.

untog 9y ago
I wonder about this. I suspect people think webview apps are bad because the only apps you know are in a webview are the ones made badly. A properly integrated webview is imperceptible - I've read that Apple uses them in various parts of iOS, and I only ever found out that Instagram uses one for their activity feed when a buggy release had the CSS missing. More broadly, I wish Apple would implement more webapps features simply because a lot of people can't afford to make native apps for every platform. Yes, they're inferior to bespoke iOS apps, but they're better than an app that doesn't exist at all.
Illniyar 9y ago
"It's actually the type of applications Apple has indicated are going to be banned from the store over the coming months" What do you mean by that? can you elaborate?, I haven't heard of any such thing and am very interested to find out more.