purchases-ios VS fastlane

RevenueCat — Hosted backend for in-app purchases and subscriptions (iOS and Android). Free up to $2.5k/mo in tracked revenue.

You got it! Yea, I can't promise everything will work perfectly with all those other platforms, but I will promise that I believe we have the best handling out there. We have 10+ engineers fielding issues from 1000s of developers every month and incrementally improving.

We try to collect as little data as possible, but we use RevenueCat for handling the IAP. We currently use it with anonymous (randomly generated) IDs and don't save additional attribution metadata, so we try to be as privacy-friendly as is possible with this setup.

For IAPs, RevenueCat is one of the simplest setup that exists for React Native. And they have an expo plugin. But having this expo management workflow is the first thing you want to do. https://www.revenuecat.com/

Alternatively you could use RevenueCat which would handle receipt validation for you. I haven’t used it personally but everyone seems to sing its praises.

There are services out there like revenuecat (disclaimer: I have no connection with them, other than being a satisfied customer) that help make these things easier. I recommend looking into them if you’re struggling to wrap your head around it on your own, apple’s documentation can be pretty hard to decipher at times.

I'm Josh Holtz, the author of this article. You might now me from my lead maintainer role of fastlane, creator of Indie Dev Monday, and founder of the new Deep Dish Swift conference ☺️ But I also work at RevenueCat to help developers make more money by making in-app purchases and subscriptions easier!

I have integrated RevenueCat in my previous Startup Fitenium to manage subscriptions, and it was one of the best decisions. Instead of having to integrate both Apple and Google play SDK for subscriptions, with RevenueCat I simply integrated their SDK, which is well documented and much easier to work with. Everything else is magically managed by RevenueCat behind the scenes, to properly handle the payments, users, and analytics.

RevenueCat — Hosted backend for in-app purchases and subscriptions (iOS and Android). Free up to $10k/mo in tracked revenue.

Fastlane: For mobile development, Fastlane is an automation tool that can automate the building and releasing of iOS and Android apps.

The 20 testers closed beta should be very easy to automate through Fastlane and a script, I think https://www.20testers.com/ is already using this, seeing that they say "We run automated tests on 20 separate Google accounts for 14 consecutive days. The testing involves interacting with your app in a human-like manner - pressing buttons, filling in inputs, etc.".

Fastlane is an open-source platform designed to simplify Android and iOS deployment. It allows you to automate every aspect of your development and release workflow.

Fastlane

The issue with logs and detailed descriptions can be found here: https://github.com/fastlane/fastlane/issues/21385

-> You can use codepush. -> If you like me, you can use fastlane https://fastlane.tools/ -> You can use Expo OTA without use expo too :)

Building your app using only GitHub Actions is possible, but it's definitely not a straightforward process. There are tools such as Fastlane and of course XCode Cloud that simplifies this process, however my goal was a solution that was not dependent on third party libraries or services.

Yep, MIT licensed FOSS just like Godot itself :)

Fastlane - self-hosted solution for building apps on a "box in the closet".