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How do you comply with Apple's App Store Review Guidelines when using this (specifically, this clause):

2.5.2 Apps should be self-contained in their bundles, and may not read or write data outside the designated container area, nor may they download, install, or execute code which introduces or changes features or functionality of the app, including other apps.

Also,

> we also have a flag that forces our users to relaunch the app if the bug is app breaking

How do you do this?



Apple allows updates to Javascript outside of the review process as long as it subscribes to certain guidelines (1), including but not limited to: not changing core feature functionality, being limited to bug fixes, and also that the app doesn't provide unlimited access to native SDK or system functions. React Native provides a limited API to js code so it's fine.

As far as your second question, we simply deploy store logic that loads a Modal telling our users that they must relaunch the app.

[1] https://microsoft.github.io/code-push/faq/index.html#1-does-...


How do you convey "relaunch the app" to your users? I'm sure many of them think that pressing the home button is the same as killing your app.


Since OTA updates can only impact JS, we can offer a button that essentially calls something like `window.refresh` and it reloads the JS bundle within the container. We actually recently leveraged ErrorBoundaries in React 16 to do something similar in our app as well.


See section 4.7.

> Apps may contain or run code that is not embedded in the binary (e.g. HTML5-based games, bots, etc.), as long as [long list of requirements...]


That doesn't quite answer the question like victoriasun did–you can execute code not in the binary (e.g. JavaScript), but it doesn't say that you can download new code and execute that.




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