In August 2018, we announced the book on iOS DevOps the draft content of the book has been published on the XCTEQ website here. Since then lots of connection on LinkedIn and Twitter showed interest in the book. First of all, we would like to thank all of you who expressed 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…
An Xcode is an integral part of the iOS application development. As an iOS Developer, we work with Xcode most of the time. In case of something unexpected, we quit and restart Xcode which magically fixes our problems most of the time. Normally we open Xcode from the Spotlight, Dock 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…
Apple released Xcode New Build System with Xcode 9 in the preview mode. It wasn’t activated by default at that time. With Xcode 10, new build system activated by default, by adopting the new build system you might have faced some of the issues in your existing iOS projects. Apple is Read more…
Apple is truly investing in testing tools and technologies which is a great thing for app developers. There is no doubt that everyone appreciates their work to motivate them to keep doing it. Apple announced parallel testing support for XCTest framework at the WWDC 2018, platform state of union session. There Read more…