Saffron Apple is excited to announce the trailer of our book on iOS DevOps which cover almost everything to deliver the quality app to AppStore. This book will be the product of Saffron Apple which we call it as XCBook. This book is aimed to solve the challenges of iOS development Read more…
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 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 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 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 Read more…
Apple’s XCUITest framework is a hot and emerging framework for UI automation of iOS apps. Since launched in WWDC 2015, it got a lot of attention and enhancement. It allows us to write UI tests for iOS apps in Swift which makes it easy for iOS developers to add UI Read more…
Fastlane tools automate entire iOS CI/CD pipelines and allow us to keep an iOS infrastructure as code. Fastlane is set of tools to automate almost everything from analyzing, building, testing, code signing and archiving iOS apps. However, if you look inside, it’s nothing but a Ruby layer on top of Read more…
An every mature and modern programming languages come with an official solution for code distribution to share and reuse code that has been already written. The mechanism to share, distribute and re-use the code is usually handled by the package manager. The examples of popular package managers are RubyGems for Ruby, Composer for PHP, NPM for Read more…
iOS Code Signing Tutorials This is Part-1 of the iOS Code Signing tutorial series. This series covers fundamentals of the iOS code signing process. You can find all the posts in the series linked below iOS Code Signing: 1. Getting Started iOS Code Signing: 2. Certificate Signing Requests iOS Code 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 Read more…