Topic

Over-the-Air App Updates

Shipping changes to an installed mobile app by pushing a new code bundle directly to devices, bypassing app store review. Available to JavaScript-based frameworks and not to fully compiled native apps.

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Shopify's Helix stops a porting agent at every checkpoint for a human sign-off

Shopify's case for dropping React Native rests on agents porting features between iOS and Android. The tooling built around those agents shows how much human review that still takes, and what the switch costs in hotfix speed.

Publishers:dev.to

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