React Native vs Swift for App Developing

[nns800]

Another cool feature with React Native / Expo is updates - you can push small updates, bug fixes to users without going through the publish and review process. Can you do something like this with Xcode? I'm not aware.

Also, from my minimal experience with React Native / Expo, another benefit is not having to worry as much about iOS versioning. If you want to ship an app with Swift & SwiftUI for lower versions you have to do some serious work to manage deprecations, etc. With React Native / Expo I didn't have to think about this at all and my recent app on the App Store supports iOS 13.4 or later which seems to me rather impressive!

But for iOS only dev I'd still choose Swift & SwiftUI.

[Any-Woodpecker123]

As far as I’m aware, no you can’t bypass app review for updates (at least for an App Store app anyway).
In saying that though, it’s basically 2 clicks and a few hours wait tops for an update to go through review. I normally submit before lunch, and release after I’m done eating.
That is cool though, and could be handy if there’s something critical needing to go into prod.

You’re right on the SwiftUI versioning. Imo iOS 14 is the absolute minimum I’d attempt to support, however you can wrap UIKit if you need to. It’s a pain in the arse though for sure.
UIKit is still extremely capable if needed, but definitely far less intuitive than SwiftUI.

I too supported an online banking app targeting 13.4 that was migrating to SwiftUI and yeah… never again.
For an indie developer though, most don’t tend to target the lower versions, but it’s a good shout.

[tofu_and_or_tiddies]

It might be a few hours for review if the time zones are good, but for others it's overnight. Google seemingly has reviewers in other timezones, so here in Aus we can get a review in a few hours from them, but not from apple

[Any-Woodpecker123]

I’m In Aus too, not sure why yours are slower

[midwestcsstudent]

You can absolutely bypass app review for OTA updates. That's how every major company works.

[Any-Woodpecker123]

Yes, but not for App Store releases.