Saffron Apple is excited to announce the trailer of our book on iOS DevOps which cover almost everything to deliver the quality app to AppStore. This book will be the product of Saffron Apple which we call it as XCBook. This book is aimed to solve the challenges of iOS development 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…
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…
Today, the 24th Feb marks 25th birthday of Ruby programming language since it named by Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto in Japan. Since released in 1993, it becomes most dynamic, easy to learn and most fashionable programming language. In the world of iOS development, Ruby has been used almost everywhere from package management, automating releases Read more…
Apple doesn’t want us to enable continuous deployment for whatever reason. There is no API to deal with iTunes Connects and Apple still wants to approve your apps. Apple’s own Continuous Integration server a.k.a Xcode Server doesn’t allow us to upload the IPA files to iTunes Connect. The archive process creates Read more…
Fastlane has just released with Swift support from version 2.69.0 onwards which means iOS developers no longer have to write Ruby code to configure Fastlane in iOS or macOS projects. Fastlane is one of the great tools to automate iOS deployments, releases and all sort of common iOS development tasks Read more…
This is the second part of my experience at Photobox Group dealing with Continuous Deployment of iOS apps. In the previous post, we have seen that how we used Fastlane for continuous deployment of iOS app from continuous integration server. One of the most tricky obstacles to Continuous Delivery is the Read more…
Note : This post has been published on official Moonpig Engineering blog. Read here At my previous role at Photobox Group, I have enjoyed working on DevOps practices for iOS apps by involving in setting up Continuous Integration servers for iOS deployments and provisioning them with Ansible. We used self-hosted Read more…
Apple made Swift open-source in December 2015 and since then a new version of Swift getting released frequently. In these changing environment of Swift development, it’s essential to make a sure version of the Swift being used to build iOS apps are correct and as expected. We will cover how to automatically Read more…
Apple has released Xcode UI Testing a.k.a XCUI Test framework at WWDC 2015 which enable UI testing of iOS application straight from Xcode without any third party tools like Appium, Calabash or KIF. These tools that call themselves mobile testing frameworks but they’re actually little more than wrappers to UIAutomation or Instruments. The release Read more…