Migrating From Hybrid App To Native App At Later Point Of Time

Currently I am planning to use Hybrid App (ionic framework) to develop an initial version of our app. The reason is I am planning to start a startup and currently not in a position

Solution 1:

Publishing hybrid app on platform specific stores are same process as publishing native app.

You can develop and build application using any cross platform mobile application development tool (i.e. ionic framework or any other) and later easily move to native development tool. You can also develop application on hybrid tool(ionic framework) and build it on native development tool(Xcode or Android Studio) and proceed further for publishing on store.

In Android, package name(application ID) should be same for different versions of app binary. Also signing certificate remain same during version change.

In iOS, Bundle ID must be same for different versions/builds of app binary. Apart from this, provisional profiles and certificates also need to be same.

Solution 2:

It is possible unless the binary have the same bundle identifier. You may first release an app with Ionic framework and later push a native version of it. One thing is that the two binary have to have same bundle identifier.

Solution 3:

You can surely do by keeping package name same at google playstore or say bundle identifier at App store. It will replace your old apk or ipa file with code using native APIs at later point in time.