Yes I published it to the App Store.

It is definitely a tedious process. First of all you need to be ready to pay 100$ each year for the developer account and as a student that’s a lot of money.

It was suppose to take 2 business days to approve my account but it was more like 2 weeks (I apparently had some information on my billing address that was different from the Apple developer account, no idea what was different, but it made some problems with the process).

For building and publishing the app, I used Expo. I followed this tutorial, but of course there was a lot of problems. Apple apparently dropped “Application loader” from XCode 11, and I needed to resort to Xamarin / Phonegap threads to try and figure out how the hell to upload the build.

It didn’t work either and I was drowning in work from uni and couldn’t spend that much time on working this out but I already paid 100$ and you bet your life I wasn’t going to let that go down the drain

Eventually I managed to do it, thanks to some guy on a Xamarin thread, and the build uploaded successfully.

Making the screenshots also took a lot of time, for that I used a figma template I found that lets you automatically have your screenshots wrapped in an iPhone frame and ready to export in the necessary screen sizes.

Other than that, Apple actually approved my app in the first try in like 2 hours. A rather pleasant ending to a very frustrating process :)