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Notes, Guides & Articles

Write-ups on tooling, pipelines, and lessons learned building products across drawk, drawcode, and drawlabs.

Personal vs. Business Developer Accounts: Apple, Google Play, Steam, and Epic Games Compared

TL;DR: Starting with a personal developer account feels fast when prototyping, but modern app and game stores hit individual accounts with severe roadblocks. Google Play forces new personal accounts into a mandatory…

App Store APIs vs. Developer Portals: What Apple and Google Let You Automate (and What They Force by Hand)

TL;DR: While both Apple and Google provide extensive REST APIs for release automation, neither platform lets you take an app from zero to live without manual steps in their web consoles. Initial app creation, legal…

Mobile App Bundle Naming Conventions

TL;DR: For cross-platform projects, stick strictly to lowercase alphanumeric characters (a-z, 0-9) separated by dots (.). Android allows underscores (_) but strictly rejects dashes (-). iOS allows hyphens/dashes (-) but…