1, 2, 3 build - continuous integration for mobile apps

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1, 2, 3 - Build!Continuous Integration for mobile

Apps


MotivationSetting up a Jenkins (Oh no… not again!)


“Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations we can perform without thinking”

Alfred North Whitehead


Quick Survey

What are you developing?• Mobile Apps• Web Apps• Desktop Apps• Other

What Version Control system do you use?• Nothing• SVN• Git• Other

What delivery method are you using?• Continuous Integration• Continuous Delivery• Manual Integration

Which tools are you using?• Jenkins• TeamCity• Travis• Cloud-Services (Bitrise, VSTS, …)


Continuous Integration


1Building your app


The build

Repository Known compilation environment Deliverable


Known compilation environment

Building for iOS, requires a Mac

Depends on your project

Building for Windows, requires Windows

Android is supported on both platforms


Setting up your automated build - GreenhouseCI

Live-Demo


Automatic Versioning

Chose with care!

Automatically version your application, that is built from the CI


Signing your app

AndroidKeystores (self-generated)

Debug vs. Release Keystore

More information:• https://developer.android.com/studio/publish/app-signing.html • https://codesigning.guide/ • http://sharpmobilecode.com/making-sense-of-ios-provisioning/

iOSIdentity Certificates and Provisioning Profiles

Dedicated testing devices

https://developer.android.com/studio/publish/app-signing.html



https://codesigning.guide/

https://codesigning.guide/

http://sharpmobilecode.com/making-sense-of-ios-provisioning/




2Testing your mobile app


“Test early. Test often. Test automatically”

Hunt and Thomas – The Pragmatic Programmer


Automated Unit-TestingCan easily be done on each platform

Live-Demo


Automated UI-Testing

• GreenhouseCI, Bitrise and Travis support Android Emulator and iOS Simulator directly

• VSTS requires custom Agent: https://github.com/Microsoft/vsts-agent• On-Devices Services like

• Testdroid• Xamarin Test Cloud• AWS Device Farm• Firebase• Testobject

Tricky, but possible


Automated Testing

Live-Demo


“Test your software, or your users will”

Hunt and Thomas – The Pragmatic Programmer


3Deploying your mobile app


Publishing to App Stores

More info: https://github.com/Microsoft/google-play-vsts-extension

Deploying to Google Play Store

https://github.com/Microsoft/google-play-vsts-extension


Publishing to App StoresDeploying to Apple App Store


Publishing to App StoresDeploying to Apple App Store using Fastlane


Publish to (Beta-)Testers

Directly publish the app to testersAvailable for all mobile platformsUseful features: • Insights• Crash Reports• Feedback• Auto-Updater (side-loading)

HockeyApp


More tools and resources

• Fabric Crashlytics, • Testflight BetaTesting for iOS

More links on http://my-it.at

http://my-it.at/


Summary

• Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery is possible• Sometimes tricky to set it up correctly, but definitely worth the effort• Online services do cost some money, but can help you to quickly get

started

1, 2, 3 build - continuous integration for mobile apps

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