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Quickly make changes to legacy mobile app?
Impossible, and I hate it
So, your customer asked to add a button to your flutter or swift project? Or even worse, an old React Native app.
And the app was released about 6 months ago, not so long ago!
First, download everything Apple has on their CDNs — all updates that weight about 10GB. This is probably not an issue in the USA or Singapore. But in third world countries, this is a big issue — several hours is what it takes.
I so much hate it.
This is an urgent change I have to make, it’s a bug, and some users cannot use the app until I fix this. I know what to do, I need to add a couple of lines of code. Nothing special. But not today. And then they will be checking my app for several days.
You know what?
This is not only by Apple. I remember I stopped coding in Android studio just because the app that was compiling just yesterday, is not compiling today just because there were new updates, and they are incompatible with some other libraries.
When you don’t work on a project for a year or two, be sure, you will not be able to quickly lunch the app.
React JS and React Native apps are best at this.
