With Xcode 10, there are some big enhancements in the performance and developer productivity while building Swift projects. The build times are boring and might distract developers if builds are taking longer, Apple has put some efforts to optimize the build times especially for the Swift language. Basically, build time differ Read more…
Setting up Continuous Delivery Pipelines for platforms wasn’t a straightforward task, it was more challenging when it comes to scripting the pipelines in the code. It might be because of native Apple developer tools like xcodebuild, agvtool, security, transporter, altool etc wasn’t easy to understand to form pipelines as a Read more…
Before releasing an iOS app to Apple App Store, it’s very common to have a build that has been targeted to internal audience i.e QA engineers, Product Owners that will run only on specific provisioned devices. During that process, you might have heard the words like DEBUG or RELEASE configuration. Read more…
There is no doubt that Swift is amazing programming language to develop iOS apps. However, since Apple has open-sourced Swift, it is going through major breaking changes. Swift is evolving day by day but we have to make sure our apps or libraries still work with constantly changing Swift. Apple Read more…
Continuous Delivery of iOS apps is essential to stay relevant in the competitive market. Companies having the infrastructure to release features to the customers as soon as it developed wins the race over the companies does manual releases from someones local Xcode. In the Continuous Delivery mode, we should be Read more…
Every iOS app requires a certificate from Apple to publish apps to the App Store. The certificates are required to code sign iOS apps. Apple usually offers development certificate to distribute apps in debug mode on certain devices and distribution certificate to distribute the app to App Store. The certificate Read more…
There is no doubt that Swift is an awesome language for developing native apps for Apple platforms like iOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS. However, being a new language, Swift lacks a lot of testing features like we see in other programming languages like Ruby. Mocking classes with protocols in Swift Read more…
Apple has released new command line tool xccov with Xcode 9.3 for inspecting the contents of Xcode code coverage reports. Unfortunately, there isn’t any web documentation yet, so we have to type man xccov in the terminal to get more information about this command line tool. This utility requires Xcode 9.3 and command-line Read more…
Fastlane tools automate entire iOS CI/CD pipelines and allow us to keep an iOS infrastructure as code. Fastlane is set of tools to automate almost everything from analyzing, building, testing, code signing and archiving iOS apps. However, if you look inside, it’s nothing but a Ruby layer on top of Read more…
An every mature and modern programming languages come with an official solution for code distribution to share and reuse code that has been already written. The mechanism to share, distribute and re-use the code is usually handled by the package manager. The examples of popular package managers are RubyGems for Ruby, Composer for PHP, NPM for Read more…