how to publish django-reactnative app on google playstore

[Smriti Garg]

Hi,

For my current project I have to publish an app (Django+ReactNative) on google playstore. Can anyone guide me through this? Like what to use for this? It will be of great help.

Thankyou

Regards,

Smriti

[Kasper Laudrup]

On 05/04/2021 22.48, Smriti Garg wrote:
> For my current project I have to publish an app (Django+ReactNative) on
> google playstore. Can anyone guide me through this? Like what to use for
> this? It will be of great help.
>

I might not be completely updated on what the Google Play Store is used
for, but I thought it was used for Android apps?

How could this be related to Django and how would you publish a Django
"app" as an APK in Google Play Store?

Have you managed to make your Django application an APK that you can run
on your Android device, in that case please do share the details.

Thanks and kind regards,

Kasper Laudrup

[Smriti Garg]

Hi Kasper,

Thank you so much for replying.

Actually I am working for last 1.5 years only and have worked previously on web only. I have no idea about how things go on android apps. I tried to google but i found out the way to publish react-native app on google store. But where django will be running is the issue that i couldnt found the answer for. So the app i have is react-native app basically. And Django is used as its backend. And now i want to publish it to google store. Now can you guide me through this?

Regards,

Smriti

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-users...@googlegroups.com.
To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/98eee163-6477-a481-d219-7b81228efd48%40stacktrace.dk.

[Kasper Laudrup]

On 06/04/2021 18.59, Smriti Garg wrote:
> Thank you so much for replying.

You're welcome.

> Actually I am working for last 1.5 years only and have worked previously
> on web only. I have no idea about how things go on android apps. I
tried
> to google but i found out the way to publish react-native app on google
> store. But where django will be running is the issue that i
> couldnt found the answer for. So the app i have is react-native app
> basically. And Django is used as its backend. And now i want to publish
> it to google store. Now can you guide me through this?
>

The reason you haven't been able to find any answers is, that you don't
publish web apps in Google store. You publish Android apps (and possibly
other stuff, I'm not sure).

There's no reason to "publish" your web application anywhere. Just share
the URL. That's one of the main strengths of "web applications".

So no, unfortunately I cannot guide you and I doubt anyone else can
since what you're asking for doesn't make much sense.

I do know that there are some ways to more or less automate converting a
web application to an "app" that could run on a phone, by embedding a
web browser that simply pointed to the existing web page. That was an
easy way to make money some years ago where everyone wanted to say that
had an "app". Not sure what the current status is.

Kind regards,

Kasper Laudrup

[Andréas Kühne]

Hi,

It really depends on what you are looking for. There are several different platforms for doing what you want, the one that I currently am using is Ionic: www.ionicframework.com. You can use different frontends for creating the applications - but it is best with angular (I think). 

Regards,

Andréas

To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/CAO4verJTRFRbzaz6iHLrk3SxopwPMgzVHwTxVpjg4LqLt8kYKg%40mail.gmail.com.

[Kasper Laudrup]

On 06/04/2021 21.45, Andréas Kühne wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It really depends on what you are looking for. There are several
> different platforms for doing what you want, the one that I currently am

> using is Ionic: www.ionicframework.com <http://www.ionicframework.com>.

> You can use different frontends for creating the applications - but it
> is best with angular (I think). 
>

That looks pretty neat.

It was probably ten years ago or something that I looked at something
similar, and that was basically just wrapping a web browser in an app.
This looks like it might actually be useful.

Not that I personally have any use for something like that at the
moment, but thanks for sharing.

Kind regards,

Kasper Laudrup

[Ryan Nowakowski]

Smriti,

If you already have your Django backend set up and running somewhere on the interwebs then your question here is really about how to publish an Android app to the Google Play store, right? The fact that your Android app is written using react native is really just a side note. You'll probably want to ask this question on an Android developer mailing list.

- Ryan

[Nijo Joseph]

Hai All, 

With my limited knowledge you have to do it separately like Django of course would be your backend and you have to host it seperately exposing your APIs. On the other hand the react native app you have to use as your frontend which you should build as APK for Android and can use as APK direct installation file which can be uploaded to play store for others to download and requires Google approval and so on.

With regards,

Nijo Joseph

[damanjeet kaur]

Hi

I think you have used DRF (Django Rest Framework for API) and react native is used for Front end . Then search React native apk is uploaded in Google play store . 

It is related with front end . Django is for API . you are not sharing your API. you are interested to share your share your front end.

Regards

Damanjeet Kaur

To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/CAFFcXK%2BiOU_z2rDQRh1-4h1ejxJxCCs6KJ-ks%2BOsSn1Gorborg%40mail.gmail.com.

[damanjeet kaur]

Hi 

you can also refer to this link for apk in React Native

https://reactnative.dev/docs/signed-apk-android

Regards

Damanjeet Kaur