I need a wrapper for mobile. Any advice?

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Hi. I started on replit about 5 days ago. Unfortunately I didn’t realize until I had an MVP that it wouldn’t export mobile files for Google play ad apple. Ugh. I’d prefer not to rebuild my app. I found a few no code options but they are beyond my budget and have mixed reviews. I can’t do it by hand. Any suggestions on what to use?

I am currently looking at https://www.buildnatively.com but it looks just like the mock up assistant made for me when I asked if it could build a wrapper.

Yes, I asked assist to make a wrapper. For $5 they told me it was doable. But given that Repli doesn’t have a wrapper, im inclined to believe agent cant do it. Otherwise replit wouldn’t bother with the expo/assistant feature. Right??

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I doubt Natively is going to give you access to any native device features - it’s just a dumb wrapper.

I have built a scaffold app that people can import into Replit to create new web and native mobile apps from a single codebase. But it is only for new apps - you can’t import existing ones.

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Just ask to the agent to convert it to PWA with an icon, etc…
You can send notifications and othr cool stuff just with PWA.

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With PWAs: Notifications aren’t guaranteed on all devices. And you can’t use certain other device specific hardware features. And you can’t do in-app payments.

So really depends on what you want to achieve with your app.

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Yes, I agree but you’ll also recognize that more than 50% of the time users don’t really need those specific features. In those cases, a PWA can solve the problem while avoiding the hassle of going through app stores. Personally, before starting any new app, I ask myself: Do I really need to go through the whole approval process, or can I go straight with a PWA? And most of the time, I can take the faster route.

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Which is exactly why I designed the AI Dev Kit to build web, PWA and native - have all of them at the same time if you like :blush:

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Ok this might be a good solution for me since I already have the app built and don’t want to start over. My goal is to get it in the play store and see if it gets any hits at all before I put any more money into it!!

These are the instructions Google Gemini came up with for me to. Do they look at all right? I know he hallucinates sometimes. PWA to TWA to Play Store - Google Docs