Apple open-sourced Swift programming language and whole source code is now available on Github. There are thousands of programming languages available in the world and hundreds of on the way but underlying basics of programming languages remains the same. It’s very important to understand the roots so that you can learn programming languages easily. The languages are either compiled or 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 uses to upload your binary to iTunes connect and these Read more…
Apple takes accessibility very seriously for all their platforms to make sure all the iOS, macOS, tvOS and watchOS apps are usable for everyone including the people having disabilities. Unfortunately, every human being is not normal, some people have disabilities like vision Impairment, deafness, mental health conditions or physical disabilities. However, technology has grown so much that people having disabilities can do Read more…
Believe it or not, setting up and managing DevOps tooling is a brainfucking activity. It’s true for both web and mobile application development. It requires the deep understanding of server and networking technologies, automation with complex scripting, cloud technologies and 24 x 7 Monitoring support. This became a cause for a headache for many entrepreneurs, project or program managers to the point Read more…
I didn’t expect that this will be my first blog post of 2018. On my holiday, I read the tweet that ‘Apple Buys BuddyBuild’ and It raised my eyebrow, I blinked and read the tweet again. I quickly checked BuddyBuild twitter handle, there wasn’t any tweet, googled it and found that Tech Crunch, CNBC and BuddyBuild blog confirmed this news. This 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 like Code Signing, Managing provisioning profiles, certificates and versions from 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 and DevOps toolkit. We have achieved it in the past in 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 activating code diagnostic tools on iOS CI, we have seen 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 9 at the time of writing this post but in 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 to understand the code signing, you should watch WWDC 2017 Read more…
