Explain the process of publishing the app to the Play Store and Apple App Store, and share any personal experience or anecdotal evidence you have.
I have been working with react-native for about 5 years now. I have deployed apps like MTN D2R app, WorkRaven, uLesson, Remedy Portal, Affixdot and more.
The process of publishing to the stores have changed with time especially on the Android part.
- Apple Development Account
- MacOS
- XCode
- Provisioning Profile
After archiving the iOS build using XCode, and the uploading it to the https://appstoreconnect.apple.com/login and uploading all assets and other requirements of the App Store.
App will then be submitted for review.
- Android sdk
The steps listed here Publishing To the Play Store to generate a Keystore file that will be used to generate an android bundle using the ./gradlew bundleRelease (.aab file)
This keystore file also must be used to generate SHA keys that will be uploaded to the store.
One particular process I keep forgetting is how to get a App Store distribution certificate and Provisioning Profile even though I have done it multiple times
API KEYS and SECRETS should be managed by using a .env file / react-native-dotenv module. There are also other ways to manage them including using aws secret manager etc. It all depends on the situation