Hey all,
as I am new to the world of app/web app building, I don’t have any idea of the implications of building a web app compared to an IOS app. As we hope to one day to move from a web app to an IOS app, I am interested to know if there are plans to expand the agent to assist in the creation of IOS app and if so, when it is planned?
If not, does anyone have suggestions for what we should do, when we plan to move to an IOS app?
I’m a bit of a novice myself when it comes to coding but my understanding is that Replit is fantastic web based app maker where it can show you the apps live. When it comes to iOS development (at least in the traditional sense with Apple’s native way of doing things) it would be using SwiftUI to code and it’s not something that can be shown in a web browser, you’ll need Xcode to compile the code to make it an app.
Hope that makes sense
Great! Yes, we are just scratching the surface of the use of SwiftUI and Xcode, so great to be confirmed that we are moving in the right direction. Do you know if there are any tools similar to the replit agent to assist in the creation of SwiftUI?
In Android / Play store it is possible to put a mobile wrapper around a web app, you can probably do the same thing with Apple as many apps operate this way.
What I am saying is an app that calls a web site inside your app, no reason to make it multiple times and simplifies deployment, unless there is a reason to use the phone processing
Good to know about the Android/Play store!
Will definitely have to look into that, as I can see there a mix responses regarding if a mobile wrapper is enough or not for IOS. However, I have not stumbled across a few cross-platform solutions, which we might be able to use sometime in the future for the development of the IOS and Android apps, while maintaining the development through replit
We’re using Expo for native and web development, directly inside Replit.
And use EAS for native builds and app store submissions.
Works great for us.
As a non programmer, I would appreciate any tips that would help me do this. I have developed couple of react web apps but would like to convert them to mobile. React Native would work but Replit doesn’t support it. Would just asking the agent to use expo to convert the app work?
but do you have access to Replit Agent? I don’t understand why is only available on replits started by the Agent…
Looks like https://capacitorjs.com/ or similar might be a good option at least to get something up and running on the app store. May struggle with performance after a while.
@realfunnyeric will know better than me.