Hi everyone. As we add more and more users to the private beta, we’ve changed up the entry point for adding a mobile app to your project.
Instead of adding the feature flag to the editor URL, there is a new option in the Settings > Mobile tab that lets you explicitly add a mobile app to your project. For any apps that already have mobile views, you will no longer need the feature flag to see your mobile views.
This also means that when you go to deploy a change to your web app, a mobile deploy option will now always be visible. Pretty soon, we will be adding an option in the deploy modal for whether you want a Web only deploy or Web + Mobile deploy. In the mean time, you can use the feature flag &mobile_deploys=false to turn off the mobile build capability.
Will there eventually be an option for Mobile only deploy for new builds requiring review by the stores? That way, we can deploy mobile and get the app review process going before updating the web version until the new mobile app version has been released.
I could be off in my thinking here, but this section of the docs has me curious. Thanks!
We are releasing support for Multiple Live Versions soon (currently in QA) which does this sort of support for you automatically. Basically, every mobile deploy is tied to a live web version, which means older version of your mobile app will not break when you deploy a new version of your app and its still waiting for app store review.
