Apparently some Glide developers have successfully distributed their Glide apps in app stores. If you search the forum, you will find many topics that cover this.
However:
- Glide helps already-existing established businesses build internal custom applications for their employees, customers and partners. These applications are distributed as URLs and QR codes. There is no good reason to use app stores as distribution channels.
- In my understanding, app stores are designed to distribute native apps such as iOS and Android applications. Glide applications are not native applications, they are progressive web apps which are distributed via URLs and QR codes.
- Apps stores are great as marketplaces to search for and distribute consumer apps that will reach millions of users and whose business models are based on ads or freemium business models. Such apps are the business, unlike Glide apps which serve an existing business and presumably don’t need to reach millions of employees, customers or partners.
These 3 points are basically 3 ways of saying the same thing: Glide apps don’t belong in app stores.