So i have a web app i built earlier this year and now have the “build mobile” feature for it as well. But when i click on the mobile editor it doesn’t show the web app i built it shows only a blank screen. My web app is built like a mobile app btw.
Anyway i wanna know how to like transfer the elements (including pop ups!) to the mobile app all at once. Likei said my web app is built like a mobile app already so it uses mainly groups instead of pages to navigate. So say i have a “group” named something like Home then when the word “profile” is clicked it shows the Profile “group” and hides the Home “group”; BUT if i were to copy and paste with workflows one group at a time to the mobile app, id get a whole bunch of errors that would say “Profile group doesnt exist yet etc.” so id essentially be having to tweak all the workflows and conditions that rely on that grouo, then each following group after etc.
I’m in the same position as you. I built my web app in a mobile-first design. I’ve created a “mobile app” but based on the tutorial videos, I’ve learned that the front end development is not transferable because mobile apps use different visual components. I’ve been able to copy some small items successfully, but the mobile app has different components, like views instead of pages and short lists instead of repeating groups. It’s only the database and the backend workflows that are shared.
Unfortunately you have to rebuild everything from again, it doesn’t matter if your web app is built on a mobile basis. That’s if you want to do it natively. If you have urgency, you can make web views and show directly what you have built in the web, but you will not have anything native.
On the documentation there is everything you need to make a choice about it..
I contacted Bubble about this very same issue and they said the only way is to build from scratch…..
For us it’s incredibly illogical to go through this process because our app is MASSIVE and we’ve been building on Bubble for a while. A single section that is hardly 1/5 of our app would probably take at least 1 month+ to perfect. There’s just so many intertwined aspects it would be actual hell to re-build from scratch, without counting all the unexpected errors that always come up while doing something new. I mean, truly hell. We’ve tested our app so much to the point it’s at in order to make it work fine that it’s truly out of the question by a thousand miles. It’s really a huge bummer for users like us…..
We’re looking into a wrapping service instead. If you’re in a similar boat that just might be the best option. Or build from scratch both for web and mobile, and sync all changes you make onto both apps…..
