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Comment by morgante | Hacker News Reader

My question is how does a service like this not violate Apple's requirements?

Isn't this a super easy back door around the App Store? Just submit a nice, simple app to Apple and inject offending modifications via Taplytics.

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Testing on mobile is becoming more common as the platforms mature, and critical to the success to many mobile apps including: Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter.

With Taplytics, because we use native iOS elements (no HTML wrappers), we are not modifying your packaged code just adjusting properties on the fly. All of your code still gets reviewed by Apple.

How deep do those properties go? Can I run sophisticated tests which change data sources, layout, etc. Or is your app focussed for now on the more trivial things like colour and copy? And on the copy front, do you support multiple languages within a single experiment?

We can change any native UIKit Class property using our sub-classes or categories. Currently, we are keeping it simple on the web interface to content and layout changes, but we also support more complex experiments like controlling view flows. Currently we have limited the interface to a single language, but multiple language support is built into the SDK/API and we will be publicly releasing it in the near future!

I imagine that would depend on what exactly Taplytics allows (or at least encourages) you to change dynamically. While I suspect that Apple prohibits loading code remotely, I'm not sure if they would object to loading CTAs remotely any more than they would object to loading a news feed remotely.

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