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by ppetree 2149 days ago
Ha! I was just headed over to post about Voltbuilder and found @ghenne had already posted something. So let me say, I'm an early adopter and I switched over from PhoneGap Build while Voltbuilder was under development. Like all other PGB users, we were completely abandoned by Adobe.

When I started looking around (and complaining quite publicly) what I found was alternatives that were pricey and, quite frankly, came with too many of their own issues and that was the last thing I wanted. When the Voltbuilder crew said they were going to put a native CLI in the cloud I was all in!

Moving from PGB to Voltbuilder required little effort. I had to create a json file that defined the project and add a certificates directory (because Voltbuilder doesn't store certificates you upload them each time). Other than that there were no modifications to the project at all.

From the first build onward, everything has worked perfectly. The issues that I have come across have all turned out to be issues caused by errant or out of date plugins. I now have my main app in both stores and my secondary app is in development.

Support in the voltbuilder forums is really good and there are some smart people around (some managing 20+ apps) that really know their way around if you get stuck.

I saw a comment from @sphuff about the pricing and, as far as I know, final pricing is still up in the air but once a week or so the staff at Voltbuilder send all the testers an email and check in to make sure we're all happy and to ask us our opinions. I think we've all voice opinions about the price.