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…
Apple has recently announced new features in XCUITest framework. One of the great feature is Activities which can be used to organise XCTest actions into human readable activities. The new protocol XCTActivity has been added to the XCTest framework. What is Activities in XCUITests Usually UI Tests perform lot of actions during execution e.g Read more…
Finally, Xcode and Github realised that they can’t live without each other and it’s true. Since Apple made few project open-source on GitHub, more people involved and contributed to those project. The latest talk at WWDC 2017 on ‘GitHub and the New Source Control Workflows in Xcode 9‘ exposed how tightly 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…