What should I know about shipping a Compose iOS ap...

# compose-ios

[Sam Stone]

What should I know about shipping a Compose iOS app in production (I know it is alpha)? It seems to work fine in my simulator.

[Colton Idle]

i haven't shipped anything yet, but the biggest thing id be concerned about shipping to prod is getting the crash logs and being able to make sense of them

[Joel Denke]

App size, libraries vs interop, distribution process, crash logs, navigation. I think most here havent actually shipped into AppStore, as in Alpha state on iOS.

[alex009]

we have compose for ios in one tab inside app https://apps.apple.com/ru/app/кампус-расписание-занятий/id1534975833 (tab courses)
you can see stacktraces of crashes in attached files. crashfree rate 97%. MAU 110k users.
compose was integrated in middle of 2023.

ru.dewish.campus_issue_fb5cd16105289e3143396df399487e61_crash_session_024bc538db00476b99d933a8d4756e79_DNE_1_v2_stacktrace.txtru.dewish.campus_issue_dbb00a83f6b2b70618afceb21a870086_crash_session_2889d83e03ff4725b725b58b18445f5b_DNE_0_v2_stacktrace.txtru.dewish.campus_issue_0f6ce6c53da3513004f474908139a592_crash_session_1c110881a4524a9c8da9bc6378440366_DNE_0_v2_stacktrace.txt

[alex009]

so crashlogs ok, but related to Compose internals (not app specific i think).
navigation - we implement own navigation lib (internal) with android navigation component on android and UINavigationController on iOS.
app size - before compose appstore connect shows Compressed File Size 58.4 MB, after compose - 110 MB
distribution process not changed - was and stay firebase app distribution for testing, testflight for pre-prod testing

[Sam Stone]

So far, the app is only 15-18 MB on Android, so not sure why the discrepancy (is iOS that different? Haven’t checked the size). There are many unused libraries, so I assume it will go down if they are removed.

[Sam Stone]

@Joel Denke Can you tell me more about what you meant by the distribution process?

[Joel Denke]

@Sam Stone Depending how your setup is done in the past, maybe need some tweaks when building and distributing, especially for iOS part. Android should be easy as always been 🙂