Radar Chat is available in the Play Store and App Store

[tlhunter]

I noticed in the docs that there was some worries about publishing to the App Store, specifically that it wasn't clear if PWA Builder based apps would be approved.

I'm happy to report that today my app Radar Chat was published to the App Store. There was a lot of back and forth, and it took several weeks to get in, but none of this back and forth had to do with the technical implementation; it was more about following Apple guidelines and general confusion from the reviewers about how the app works.

Here are links to the apps:

• Radar Chat in Play Store
• Radar Chat in App Store
• Radar Chat PWA

If you checkout the screenshots you can see that it really does look like a native app (ignore the iPad screenshots though, those will need some media query magic). I suspect this is why the app was approved: even though the native app doesn't really provide anything more than what the PWA provides, it looking and feeling like a native app is why Apple approved it.

The app uses a few features that require "I/O" with the outside world. This includes GeoLocation, opening some links in a web view, opening Google / Apple maps links, and opening telephone and email links. Things mostly work fine, though it seems to do the geolocation permission prompt with each launch.

[tlhunter]

Note that the Universal Links issue I was having was due to using code from an outdated PWA Builder build.

[jgw96]

This is epic @tlhunter ! Thanks for sharing