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…
Apple has introduced XCTest framework to create unit, integration, performance and UI tests for various Apple platforms. XCUITest is a sexy extension on top of XCTest which allow developers to write UI Tests for iOS and macOS apps. Since launched in WWDC 2015, XCUITest got a lot of attention and enhancement. It uses Swift 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…
With Xcode 9, Apple announced the new build system at WWDC 2017. The new Xcode build system is written from scratch and purely in Swift. However, for some reason, it’s not enabled by default and available as the preview. Apple said that they will make it default in the later Read more…
iOS applications don’t go to iTunes Connect easily, it takes blood, sweat and tears of engineers with them. It involves various complex task before app hits iTunes Connect. Surely, every iOS engineer must have felt that pain at least once in the lifetime. There are some underlying tools and technologies that Apple Read more…
One of the complaints about Xcode Server is it’s not scalable to be used as large-scale or enterprise level. However, if you have skills to understand and manage an infrastructure for iOS deployment then scalability can be easily achieved for small, medium or large iOS teams using the mixture of iOS Read more…
Xcode comes up with some cool tools that can be used to detect some crazy bugs that are hard to catch with manual or functional automated testing. The memory and threading related issues are hard to find unless they made the impact on the application. In my previous post on Read more…
Xcode Server is Continuous Integration service provide by Apple to analyse, build, test and archive iOS apps. Xcode Server has been recently inbuilt with Xcode 9, which made Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery of iOS apps just a few clicks away. Apple still hasn’t updated documentation of Xcode Server a.k.a XCS with Xcode Read more…
Since Apple released Xcode 9 with inbuilt Xcode Server, the process setting up Continuous Integration for iOS projects became the matter of few clicks. In my previous post on Xcode Server, I explained the detailed process of setting up CI with Xcode 9 and Xcode Server for iOS apps. In order Read more…
Just after Apple announced Xcode Sever a.k.a XCS inbuilt with Xcode 9, I wrote a detailed post on how to setup Xcode Server for iOS continuous integration with Xcode 9. The post also has example project to demonstrate new features of Xcode Server. The post mentioned some of the key Read more…