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 depending on lines of code, the number of lines of 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 code. Another big challenge was Apple never provided an API Read more…
At WWDC18, there was a session on What’s New in Testing describing new features in Code Coverage, XCTest, and XCUITests. It was presented by the Honza and Ethan. This session consists of following xccov for Code Coverage Test Selection from Scheme Randomising Tests Parallelising Tests Tips for Parallelising Tests Fortunately, I have already covered most of the things presented at this Read more…
Apple announced Core ML framework for the machine learning in last year WWDC17. The idea behind the Core ML framework was to get the trained machine learning model which was usually in the format of .mlmodel and integrate with any app using the Core ML framework. We can drag those modules in Xcode and start using those model using the Read more…
Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) 2018 has been started this week. As promised, I will be writing series of blog posts on the WWDC contents as it’s being announced. There were lots of announcements about new software like iOS12, watchOS5 etc. However, there was another session Platforms State of the Union which is kind of keynote for the developers Read more…
There is a lot of excitement about Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC 2018) that kicks off next week on 4th June 2018. Unfortunately, we don’t have access to Apple’s roadmap so it’s always exciting to see what they are going to show us in the WWDC, apart from some open-source projects like Swift, package manager and Swift NIO which 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. When we create the new iOS project in Xcode, Apple 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 ship new Xcode version with the newest version of Swift 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 language to create tests which makes it easy for iOS 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 constantly uploading the iOS build to the iTunes Connect Or Read more…
