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thaliproject / postcardapp

A sample app to demonstrate how to build Thali applications
MIT License
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Publish on Google Play / App Store? #44

Open nolanlawson opened 8 years ago

nolanlawson commented 8 years ago

I think this project would be even more impressive if folks could just download a pre-built version. In the case of iOS, it would be all the more impressive if it passed the Apple review process. :wink:

Any chance of a built version coming out soon? Or at least an APK we can download?

yaronyg commented 8 years ago

The current code is more of a proof of concept than a real app. It's missing, well, everything. And it's behavior is ridiculously insecure (it will sync with anyone it can find). I'm absolutely sure it would not pass Apple's review process as is. They would reject it just for having a horrific UX if nothing else. We do, btw, intend to fix this and eventually have a sample app that is accepted by both app stores. But that is months off.

On the good news front however, Nubisa (the folks who develop JXcore) have successfully submitted a JXcore based application to both the Apple and Google app stores. See their announcement here. So this tells us that there shouldn't be any fundamental reason why they would reject a Thali app since it isn't doing anything that other apps they have accepted have done.

Nevertheless we do want to get an app into the app store. But our code base is not yet mature enough to support a submission.

deadlyfingers commented 8 years ago

@yaronyg which version should we build for app store submission?

yaronyg commented 8 years ago

Until we at least have some kind of meaningful ACL to prevent random people from filling up your drive with junk I don't think we can go to the app store. :(