Stack Overflow has released the developer survey of 2019 which is probably the largest tech survey in the world. As per the Stack Overflow, nearly 90K developers all around the world with different age, race, gender, nationality and experience. The survey includes all popular, loved and dreaded technologies/tools. You can read the Read more…
Apple has released a new command line tool xccov last year for inspecting the contents of Xcode code coverage reports. With xccov , we can generate Xcode code coverage reports in the human-readable format as well as machine representable format like JSON without using third-party tools. In our previous post, we looked Read more…
XCTEQ is glad to announce that our XCBlog channel went live again! Apple News is a cool app to stay updated with recent news, trends and hot topics. On March 14, 2017, we wrote a post that XCBlog channel was live on Apple News and it served fresh content on iOS app Read more…
CocoaPods has been magical dependency managers for iOS developer so far. Very few developers understand what happens under the hood when they run pod install command. However, CocoaPods has been proved to be painless dependency manager in the iOS ecosystem. Personally, I had love/hate relationship with CocoaPods so I wrote a blog Read more…
Everyone who has Apple ID might have received an email that Apple will enforce Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) starting from 27th Feb 2019. The purpose of 2FA is to add an extra layer of security. Everyone needs to enable 2FA in order to use Certificates, Provisioning profiles and Identifiers from the Apple developer Read more…
At the moment, Kubernetes is the hottest tool in the DevOps industry for automating, managing and scaling deployments of the web apps. However, Kubernetes rarely managed to enter in the Swift and Apple’s world. There are server-side Swift frameworks like Vapor, Kitura, Perfect etc which are doing awesome work to get Swift on Read more…
In 2018, Mobile DevOps and CI/CD world have been shaken up by some big announcements and news. These announcements are either from Apple or from the open-source communities, but these will change the traditional ways of doing CI/CD for iOS apps for sure. In this post, we will look back Read more…
GitHub is rolling out the GitHub Actions features which allow developers to automate CI/CD workflow without using any other apps. The Github Actions can be considered as GitHub’s own CI/CD solution inbuilt within Github itself. The developers can create workflows using the GUI Editor or from the code. The GitHub Read more…
The process of uploading the iOS binary to App Store is time-consuming and boring. On top of this, Apple didn’t provide the better options to upload the binary to App Store. As of now, we have used various tools to upload .ipa files to App Store Connect. The most common method Read more…
Apple has started to roll out the New App Store Connect API with documentation for the developers. With App Store Connect API, the developer can automate entire workflows without relying on any third party tools. App Store Connect API is standard RESTful API based on JWT (JSON Web Tokens) for authentication and Read more…