Transporter 4+

Anyone who develops cross-platform using .NET Maui (formerly Xamarin) is likely acquainted with the challenges of using Visual Studio 2022, developing and, especially, making builds. The interoperability with Xcode is essential and a bit fraught; every IDE update can derail progress.

Using an IDE like JetBrains Rider and CLI builds is a good workaround, but that last step - getting the build to the right place at the App Store and verifying the content, is crucial. Transporter is a straightforward, robust tool for this step, allowing drag-and-drop uploads and onboard validation. A really excellent, well-considered tool.

Very useful little utility, especially if you use 3rd party development tools like RAD Studio.

However, its ideosyncracies are frequently annonying. In particular, it often seems to have real issues just uploading, where it gets to 85%, and then reverts back to 60%. Often it does that multiple times, and sometimes it keeps trying for hours. If you catch it in this loop, cancel the upload, and then start again, it often completes correctly. Don't know if it is this app, Apple not being able to run slowly enough for my 800 Kbps upload, or Apple's servers, but the sudden backwards jumps and highly inaccurate remaining time estimates makes me suspect that they stole the counting logic from Dominion. ;-)

Anyway, nice standalone utility. Does the job... eventually. Often just needs a kick or two during a reluctant upload.

Deploying react native apps and submitting with transporter is a pretty streamline process. Would be nice to see some direct integrations with expo and react native, for example, it takes around 30 minutes to get a build. Then after all the work I submit, transporter fires it off to the apple store and 2 hours later I get some dumb error about the build or version number. Seems like that's an error that could autonomously checked for before going through the process.

Overall this is a pretty good app. This may be more feedback for the entire process, but much better than I remember it being years ago