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Abdalla Kamesh

Founder of StoreToNative

Abdalla Kamesh is the founder of StoreToNative, the service that turns a WooCommerce store into a native iOS and Android shopping app.

Abdalla builds the product end to end, from the web console where a merchant designs their app to the one app template every store app is built from, the publishing steps for the App Store and Google Play, and the free WordPress plugin.

The guides on this blog come from that work. They cover what a native store app is, what it costs, how App Store review treats shopping apps, and how to grow an app once it is live.

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What Abdalla Kamesh writes about

71 articles so far, in 10 topics. Each topic has its own page with every article in it.

Native app guides (14)
What a native WooCommerce app actually is, how it differs from a wrapper, and what changes for your store once you have one.
Comparisons and alternatives (7)
Honest comparisons between StoreToNative and the other ways to get a WooCommerce app — app builders, PWAs, headless, and building it yourself.
App pricing and cost (6)
What a WooCommerce app costs to build, publish and keep running, and how to work out whether it pays for itself.
Growth, push and retention (12)
Push notifications, installs, repeat purchase and retention — how a native app earns its place next to your store.
App Store and Play publishing (6)
Getting through App Store review and Google Play, from developer accounts and screenshots to the rejections that catch WooCommerce stores.
Design and over-the-air updates (6)
Designing a storefront that feels native, and changing it over the air without a new build or another review.
WooCommerce technical guides (9)
WooCommerce data, product types, plugins and the REST API — how your existing store maps onto a native app.
Hosting and store performance (8)
The hosting and performance work behind a fast app: your store is the API, so its response time is the app’s response time.
Product news (2)
Announcements from StoreToNative — what we have shipped and where the product is going.
What's new (1)
The running changelog: every feature, fix and improvement as it ships.

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