At WWDC 2017, there was an amazing talk on engineering for testability which focuses on the importance of quality of test code along with app code. The talk introduced various way we can improve testability of apps by writing great test code. The most important bit was a second part where Read more…
Adding app extensions are the great way to place the power of app wherever users need it. Since Apple launched app extensions, it became very common to have them in iOS apps e.g iMessages extension is very common. While we develop iOS apps, extensions have to be separate targets in an Read more…
This is the second part of my experience at Photobox Group dealing with Continuous Deployment of iOS apps. In the previous post, we have seen that how we used Fastlane for continuous deployment of iOS app from continuous integration server. One of the most tricky obstacles to Continuous Delivery is the Read more…
Note : This post has been published on official Moonpig Engineering blog. Read here At my previous role at Photobox Group, I have enjoyed working on DevOps practices for iOS apps by involving in setting up Continuous Integration servers for iOS deployments and provisioning them with Ansible. We used self-hosted Read more…
At WWDC 2017, there was a great session on What’s New in Testing which was mainly about new features of XCTest and XCUITest frameworks. The team working on developer tools at Apple has made huge improvements in the area of UI Testing with XCUITest and Continuous Integration with Xcode Server. In Read more…
At WWDC 2017, Apple announces something that made almost every iOS developer smile, a session on ‘What’s New in Signing for Xcode and Xcode Server‘. It’s hard to explain, how easy it becomes to perform Continuous Integration for Apple platforms especially iOS and macOS using Xcode 9 and Xcode Server. Read more…
Apple made Swift open-source in December 2015 and since then a new version of Swift getting released frequently. In these changing environment of Swift development, it’s essential to make a sure version of the Swift being used to build iOS apps are correct and as expected. We will cover how to automatically Read more…
The deployment of an iOS app to iTunes Connect involves various things and it’s time-consuming and fragile activity. It’s very common practice for iOS developers use Xcode to build, test, archive and upload the app to iTunes Connect. Fortunately, Apple has command line tools to do all these things and Read more…
While developing iOS apps, simulators are the best friends of developers. It’s the quick and easy way to test app while development as we can interact with iOS simulators using GUI. Apple’s documentation on getting started in the simulator is awesome and we can learn almost everything about controlling simulators from Read more…
Apple has released it’s own package manager called ‘Swift Package Manager‘ to share and distribute Swift packages. It’s a good idea to add free Continuous Integration to our open-source Swift Packages so that we made sure nothing is broken with code changes. Fortunately, TravisCI gives you free services for the all Read more…