What is XML feed decommission？

Hey @Efun,

Thanks for posting your question on the Apple Developer Forums!

After watching the announcement, I am not 100% sure that I know what this is so hopefully you will get some other responses from the community!

Without the App Store Connect API, the only way that I knew to get content uploaded to Apple was through the Transporter tool. Below is the first of many links to Transporter.

https://help.apple.com/itc/transporteruserguide/en.lproj/static.html

Transporter was not an application at first but a CLI agent that you installed on your machine to assist in the delivery of content. Over time, Apple is constantly attempting to make it easier for developers to get work done so they eventually released the Transporter application.

https://apps.apple.com/app/transporter/id1450874784

Transporter is mostly used from my experience by teams who would like a GUI instead of using the Terminal and altool for uploading IPA files to Apple.

Anyways, Transporter also enables the uploading of any large number of content to Apple and the services they host. Nested inside of the Transporter documentation under the Apps section, you will find a link to the App Metadata Specification.

https://help.apple.com/asc/appsspec/

I will let you go through and read the full specification if you would like, but transporter leverages an XML style communication pattern when delivering content to Apple. An example of this can be found in the documentation at the below URL.

https://help.apple.com/asc/appsspec/#/itc39ebbd83d

While I am not 100% sure this is what they are talking about in the App Store Connect video, this is the most prominent location that I can think of where XML data is used to upload content to App Store Connect outside of the REST API.

Hopefully this helps and happy coding!