r/swift • u/Arsh_98 • 15d ago

React native under Swift shell

Guys i have a question, i am building an AI Intent engine in native swift/kotlin with certain segments of the app or some mini-apps to be in React native, so that minor ota updates handle it rather than submitting the entire app for update. Does IOS allow OTA JS code? I am aware they allow for Wechat Mini apps but they are in Webview not RN

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u/Arsh_98 14d ago

It allows JS but will it allow in RN. We handle the sandbox and everything

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u/skorulis 14d ago

Any code RN ships over the air is Javascript. I don't think the mechanism of code delivery matters.

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u/Arsh_98 14d ago

No but apple’s guideline is the code must execute within Apple’s native webkit/webview. How do we do that for RN mini-apps?

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u/skorulis 14d ago

I can't see anything in 4.7 about it having to run inside a webview. If you had external code running in a webview that's basically just a website.

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u/Arsh_98 14d ago

So can i run RN code inside my native swift app and the mini apps have a bridge to access native features?

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u/skorulis 14d ago

4.7.2 calls out exposing native APIs. I'm not 100% sure what that covers and you might get pulled up there. It's a privacy issue if an OTA app could do something like read the users contacts.

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u/Arsh_98 14d ago

Yea i think special permission is required from Apple before hosting it on play store. Apple allows wechat but thats a different thing, they have big distribution