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…
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Read more…