What should I do before submitting my Ionic 2 app

Ionic Framework ionic-v3
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Is there any guide what to do before submitting your Ionic 2 RC.1 app to the appstore and google’s play store?
Like:

  • enabling prod mode (or is this done automatically when running ionic build …)
  • disabling console.log so a user can’t debug your app using chrome/safari (or is this part of prod mode)
  • anything else you should not forget (even though the app will run anyway)
  • anything that is related to cordova or angular and should be regarded when deploying an Ionic 2 app.

Please guide me to any documentation about that topic. I could not find anything for RC.0 / RC.1
There was a lot about that for Ionic 1.

Regards
Grischa

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Hm, I thought, that to be an easy, almost stupid question and was prepared for “appropriate” answers. Nobody any idea? Or is not answering the appropriate answer to the stupid question? :slight_smile:

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I don’t think it’s a stupid question. I think it requires some research, which may be more difficult as Ionic 2 RC is fairly new.

here’s some stuff on prod mode

to disable the console, you might have to remove the plugin

just a note, be sure to setup your splash screen and icon

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In the meantime I have released my app for android and iOS.

I used:
ionic build -release android --prod (after doing all the stuff with the certificates) and
ionic build -release ios --prod (however I think that was not really necessary since I opend the project in xcode after that and built, archived and uploaded the app to itunesconnect using xcode anyway. Archiving in Xcode should automatically switch to release-mode.

As of the parameter -prod: I still have no idea if that does anything at all…

For iOS it is important, that you must have a valid provisioning profile for production. I couldn’t use the development provisioning profile, I used for testflight-testing before.

As of console-logging: I did not remove the console plug-in or anything else, but nevertheless debugging is not available on the versions I get from the app / play store anymore. I guess, prod-mode or release does the trick ?!?

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Safari debugging is in fact prevented by ios directly if you pack the app for production.
Not sure how Android handles that, never actively tested with android.