Iphone App written with Cordova and standard web technologies.

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paulEx OP

Created Dec ’22

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Can anyone give me a definitive answer to the following. I know a number of web technologies but not Swift or Xcode.

I wish to write an app that makes use of Cordova and standard web technologies that will be accepted when submitted to the App Store.

The one thing that I don't wish to do is spend the next four plus weeks developing it only to find it will be rejected. I don't really have time to expand my knowledge of Swift at this juncture.

I have read so many contradicting rules so any guidance would be really appreciated.

Many thanks.

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xcvxcvxcv OP

Jan ’23

It looks like it depends on the functionality you are building using HTML5 technologies. I would imagine Cordova and React Native would be fine.

This thread seems to be discussing something similar. https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/128362

There is a news post as well that links to the guidelines. https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=01212020a

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js.nelson OP

Jan ’23

We've been distributing our app on the App Store for over a year (and on TestFlight for even longer) and rarely have any rejections and I can't recall any of them being due to using Cordova. I will say though, if the decision had been mine, I would have built it with something else. Either fully native with Swift or maybe Xamarin (.NET). Cordova can be challenging to work with and I've found on my side projects that Xcode is actually well-suited for native apps (I have read bad reviews from some developers with large projects and lots of external libraries though)

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