iOS - Apple App store - Switching from CodenameOne app to native app, seamlessly with app update.

[Angelo Maci]

Hello,

I would like to discuss this scenario:

let's say a developer wants to leverage its Android Java code to create a iOS port with Codename One for a shorter time-to-market. Swift is not the problem but adapting to a new development philosophy with Xcode takes some time and some wits. But it is a matter of time. The native version is already in an early development stage.

I would like to know if creating a Codename One version of the app and publishing it on the Apple App store prevents from releasing a native app in a future time with the same "package name" or whatever it is like on Apple store, with perfect updating and then managing all data in private app folders (the app internal files).

Is it possible?

Thank you in advance.

[Steve Hannah]

I would like to know if creating a Codename One version of the app and publishing it on the Apple App store prevents from releasing a native app in a future time with the same "package name" or whatever it is like on Apple store, with perfect updating and then managing all data in private app folders (the app internal files).

Is it possible?

Publishing a Codename One app would not prevent you from later publishing a native app with the same package name (or different package name).  As for accessing app internal files, Codename One apps *are* native apps, so it is possible to develop your native app to use the app's existing app folders and internal files.

 

[Dave Dyer]

On the other hand, it's completely insane to develop and maintain two independent versions of

an app, one based on java/eclipse and the other based on swift/xcode.

[Angelo Maci]

Excuse me, where is the original answer? Is that information not correct? I see that some posts disappear, what happens here?

[Shai Almog]

I see all posts in the thread including the one from Steve who gave the right answer.
Yes, Google Groups deletes messages occasionally but I don't see any such messages in this thread.

[Angelo Maci]

OK, I think I was in the answering sub-thread, I do not use GMail so often.

Regards