Electron apps cannot be submitted to the Apple store

Re:Electron apps cannot be submitted to the Apple store by floatingatoll on Sunday November 03, 2019 @07:21PM (#21437805)

That resubmit approach ways used by at least one camera app years ago who masked their private API usage to secretly include a volume button “take photo” feature. They were told to knock it off (and Apple also added that option to the API at a later date).

Between that and the folks who hid MAME in an app or whatever, I think Apple is not simply constructing straw men when they warn that attempts to circumvent the spirit of their request - and the letter of it - will result in a lifetime ban.

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Re:Electron apps cannot be submitted to the Apple store by kalleboo on Monday November 04, 2019 @07:32AM (#21441002)

Camera+ didn't use a hidden API - they just used a standard system volume control but placed it offscreen and monitored if the volume changed (and then lower it imperceptibly if you hit 100%). And Apple has still not added an API to do this officially, last I checked all third party camera apps use a similar hack.

What changed was just the interpretation of the app store rules - the rules said something like "you're not allowed to use hardware buttons in a non-standard way". Once they added the volume shutter feature to the system camera, now it's not a non-standard way and it's not against the rules.

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