Hello, I'm not a developer. I have an app in the App Store and an Apple Developer account. I have two questions: 1. I'm trying to find out exactly where the source code of my app is located - I can't. It should be in Xcode. There is only Xcode cloud in my account, which is inactive. 2. I want to find out what programming language my app is written in. How do I do this?
do I have access to this code in my account.
You do not.
Speaking generally…
When a developer ships an app on the App Store they compile the source code into a built binary and then upload the binary to App Store Connect. Given that, App Store Connect never sees their source code [1].
Most developers manage their source code using a version control system, often with the repository managed by a cloud service. The canonical example of these are Git and GitHub, but there are numerous alternatives. That’s where you need to look for your source code.
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[1] That’s generally true, but not universally true. for example, if a developer based their app on web technologies then the built binary is likely to contain various bits of HTML and JavaScript that could be considered source code. However, and this is key, there’s no easy way to rebuild the app based on these incomplete chunks of source code.
