DevOps and Continuous Delivery practices enable continuous builds deployed to our internal or beta testing platform. It’s essential to manage the version and build numbers of iOS apps. As a best DevOps practice, iOS team should be frequently releasing new version i.e marketing version to AppStore as well as should be making Read more…
One of the goals of having Continuous Integration setup is to find the issues or bugs early in the application development lifecycle. Sooner we detect bugs, cheaper to fix them. The earliest stage that developer can find the issues in the apps is while writing the code or running the code Read more…
The deployment of an iOS app to iTunes Connect involves various things and it’s time-consuming and fragile activity. It’s very common practice for iOS developers use Xcode to build, test, archive and upload the app to iTunes Connect. Fortunately, Apple has command line tools to do all these things and Read more…
While developing iOS apps, simulators are the best friends of developers. It’s the quick and easy way to test app while development as we can interact with iOS simulators using GUI. Apple’s documentation on getting started in the simulator is awesome and we can learn almost everything about controlling simulators from Read more…
Apple has released it’s own package manager called ‘Swift Package Manager‘ to share and distribute Swift packages. It’s a good idea to add free Continuous Integration to our open-source Swift Packages so that we made sure nothing is broken with code changes. Fortunately, TravisCI gives you free services for the all Read more…
Xcode comes with lot of command line tools which you can find at path
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each one has a specific purpose but some of them are very important in day to day role of iOS Developers. Most iOS Developers like to do everything from GUI either Xcode or using third Read more…
At WWDC 2016, there was an awesome talk on ‘Advance Testing and Continuous Integration‘ which mentioned lot of new features in the XCTest Framework, Xcode-Sever and xcodebuild command line tool. We can use those features to speed up the iOS Continuous Integration process. Current iOS CI Limitation Before Xcode 8, Read more…
Dependency/Package Manager Most modern languages come with an official solution for code distribution. In today’s world of modern mobile development, it is essential to re-use the code already written by developers. Code reuse can be achieved by creating and distributing the packages from central repository. A package manager is a tool that Read more…
Apple has very comprehensive documentation on Xcode Server and Continuous Integration with OSX Server (app) and Xcode Server (Xcode within the server app). You might be wondering what’s the point of this post if everything is documented in the guide. However Apple’s guide still reads as OSX Server than macOS Server but Apple has released new macOS Server (5.2) Read more…
Continuous Integration a.k.a. CI is an integral part of iOS development process which gives early feedback when something breaks during application development. In an agile application development, producing working app is not only writing good code but also setting up infrastructure to deliver it continuously. The process of Continuous Integration and Read more…