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 features including inbuilt Server, Headless and parallel testing, Automatic Code Read more…
Every iOS application requires the data to be displayed in the app. Unfortunately, we can’t put all the data inside our iOS app. The iOS developers have to make the network requests to get this data from internet and use it in the apps. Apple has provided various libraries and frameworks like URLSession, NSURLProtocol deal with networking layer and there Read more…
An iOS app needs the backend services for performing the various task like storing data in the database, hosting of files, caching data, monitoring etc. Firebase is a cloud-based service that provides most of the server side things for our iOS apps so that we don’t have to manage the infrastructure like databases, servers and server-side things by yourself. The Firebase will Read more…
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 multiple builds for each version before submitting an app to Read more…
Core Data is one of the most popular frameworks provided by Apple for iOS and macOS apps. Core data is used to manage the model layer object in our application. You can treat Core Data as a framework to save, track, modify and filter the data within iOS apps, however, Core Data is not a Database. Core Data is using SQLite as Read more…
Recently, JSON has become most widely used format to transfer data all over the internet. In the world of iOS development, it’s very common for the developer to work with JSON data in Swift and use it for building iOS apps. There are some cool libraries like SwiftyJSON already available to work with JSON data in Swift and those libraries become popular because developers don’t need to Read more…
Apple has released the stable version of Xcode 9 recently with loads of new features. The most of the iOS developers are saying Xcode 9 is the best release so far as it has great new features that iOS Developers always wanted. You can read more about the Xcode 9 features here. We have just migrated our existing XCUITest suite to 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 inside the Xcode. In WWDC 2017, Apple has announced Xcode 9 with Read more…
For one week, top 5 cloud-based iOS Continuous Integration Services were involved in the Olympics competitions. The competitions have been held to evaluate the performance of each player against the XCFit project with 20 different criteria. I would like to thank all the five players including BuddyBuild Bitrise TravisCI Nevercode CircleCI The player has received the GOLD, SILVER or BRONZE medal Read more…
Before diving into this article, make sure you take a look at the intro article on iOS CI Olympics game here. In the introductory post on iOS CI Olympics, we have selected the few player and few games for this competition. We will be evaluating the player one by one on the basis of their performance in the each game. In this article, Read more…
