Local Projects for Mobile iOS & Android
Currently mobile projects are limited to Cloud Projects, which unfortunately has several drawbacks and it would open several doors to add a local projects feature.
Why?
If you are working on a project through version control like GIT, either alone or with other people, you cannot as far as I understand integrate mobile devices into that project workflow or take the project with you on the go.
The Pro subscription sells a half-solution to this problem, if your project is a cloud project you can have other people join as long as they also have a Pro subscription (minus one guest). This isn’t really feasible for anything that isn’t a bigger organisation. Like for game jams, doing art on your tablet and testing it in-project or just for taking your project on the go.
So either you must convert your project to a Cloud project and diverge from a version control centric local workflow, or have everyone pay for a Pro subscription which is unreasonable in most circumstances.
How?
Understandably, since it costs money to distribute and maintain GDevelop on the App Stores it currently is designed to practically require a subscription to be used if you have more than 2 Projects, and I don’t think you have to change this.
If you make mobile local projects a subscription feature, you don’t lose out on making back the cost of maintaining while also adding significant value to the mobile apps.
Both Android and iOS have access to a Files system, and while iOS is more locked down it is more than possible and iOS currently has several GIT clients (like Working Copy) that interface with the Files app and engines like Xogot (Godot for iOS) which is a local-first subscription based engine.
They save your Godot projects to the Files app and allow you to use GIT workflows and work using Xogot on the go, and Godot on Desktop through version control.
It would be a very welcome addition to GDevelop to also offer this convenience, it has the chance to make the mobile builds of the engine significantly more powerful and almost entirely on par with it’s desktop equivalent.