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Increase Mobile Development Productivity by AI-Powered Appcircle

Appcircle is integrating ChatGPT to automatize various tasks. Developers will save time and effort by using AI-Powered Appcircle.

Appcircle Team

Mar 16, 2023

Unlisted App Distribution on the App Store

Unlisted App Distribution allows to release applications to limited audiences. Let's find its pros, cons and comparison with other options.

Appcircle Team

Mar 15, 2023

Using Jira for Mobile App Development: Effective Strategies for Issue Tracking and Management

Issue tracking is an important aspects of mobile development. Be aware of the strategies and be sure about using Jira effectively.

Appcircle Team

Mar 2, 2023

Customer Success Story: Getcontact has Rapid and Efficient Development Process with Appcircle

Getcontact has a success story of providing high-quality user experience and staying ahead of the competition using Appcircle.

Appcircle Team

Mar 2, 2023

Latest Posts

Firebase App Distribution vs Appcircle Test Distribution

Distributing your mobile app to testers doesn't have to be difficult. Compare Firebase App Distribution and Appcircle Test Distribution to find the perfect fit.

Appcircle Team

Jan 18, 2023

Deploy a Flutter Web App to Firebase

Want to deploy your flutter web app to Firebase? Learn how to configure your app for deployment in this step-by-step guide.

Appcircle Team

Jan 10, 2023

Is GitLab a Good Fit for Mobile CI/CD?

GitLab CI/CD vs Appcircle for mobile app development: Which platform is the better choice for building mobile apps?

Appcircle Team

Jan 5, 2023

Integrating BrowserStack App Automate

Want to improve the efficiency of your mobil app testing process? Integrating BrowserStack App Automate into your testing workflow can help.

Appcircle Team

Jan 3, 2023

Is Azure DevOps a Good Fit for Mobile CI/CD?

Azure DevOps can used for mobile CI/CD but is it a good choice to make? Here are the reasons why you should use mobile specified DevOps.

Appcircle Team

Dec 21, 2022

Introducing Test Results for iOS and Android

Appcircle had the ability to run iOS and Android tests from the beginning. Now, we're making it even easier to see the test results.

Appcircle Team

Nov 30, 2022

Is Jenkins a Good Fit for Mobile CI/CD?

Being an open-source option, Jenkins is one of the popular mobile CI/CD tools. Though Jenkins is great, it’s built for non-mobile projects.

Appcircle Team

Nov 15, 2022

Danger in CI: Automate Your Mobile Code Reviews

Did you know that you can set rules for your code reviews and make sure they are checked before submitted? You can with running Danger in CI.

Appcircle Team

Nov 14, 2022

Kotlin Data Objects

Kotlin data objects just landed in with the version 1.7.20 as an experimental feature. We'll look at how they are helpful.

Safa Orhan

Nov 7, 2022

Jetpack Compose Navigation and Deeplinks

Navigation between screens are easy in Jetpack Compose. We look at Jetpack Compose Navigation and navigating with deeplinks.

Enes Varol

Nov 2, 2022

Customizing the Switch Button in Android

Customizing Switch Button in Android can be tricky. Let's see how it's done. First, we'll look at the methods to change the colors.

Yağmur Erdoğan

Oct 25, 2022

Transforming Kotlin Collections – Functions with Examples

Whether you're mapping the API response model or sorting, filtering, and manipulating Kotlin collections; these functions are very useful.

Safa Orhan

Oct 10, 2022

Jetpack Compose Side Effects – With Examples

Recompositions and states are the main parts of Jetpack Compose. We'll use Jetpack Compose Side Effects API's and inspect each method.

Enes Varol

Oct 6, 2022

12 Android Studio Tips and Shortcuts to Navigate Your Codebase Faster

Navigating the codebase faster speeds up the overall development. Here are Android Studio tips and shortcuts that'll make you faster.

Safa Orhan

Oct 3, 2022

Kotlin Coroutines: A Detailed Introduction

Kotlin Coroutines is an async task library for Kotlin language. It makes asynchronous code easier to write and read.

Halil Özel

Sep 28, 2022

Mobile App Security: How to Make Your App Secure

Most mobile developers ignore the security of the mobile application, especially on iOS. We highlight best practices for mobile app security.

Appcircle Team

Sep 26, 2022

SwiftUI NavigationStack: How to Use the New Navigation View

SwiftUI 4.0 has a new NavigationStack for navigating between screens. We delve into how to use this brand new api with code samples.

Doğancan Mavideniz

Sep 21, 2022

Jetpack Compose: State Management

Having a state is necessary for Android and you have to manage it somehow. Here's how Jetpack Compose State Management can be handled.

Enes Varol

Sep 8, 2022

7 Android Studio Tips to Improve Productivity

Android Studio is a complex IDE with many features, shortcuts, and plugins. Here are my favorite Android Studio tips to improve productivity.

Safa Orhan

Aug 24, 2022

How to Decouple Dependencies in Swift / iOS Projects

Decouple dependencies when developing Swift / iOS projects. Your code will be more readable, reliable, testable and of course modular.

Enes Buğra Yenidünya

Aug 23, 2022

Automatic Code Signing for iOS is Now Available

To make Code Signing for iOS apps straightforward, we’re introducing a new feature on Appcircle: Automatic Code Signing.

Appcircle Team

Aug 11, 2022

Jetpack Compose 101: The Basics

Jetpack Compose is the latest declarative UI development toolkit for Android. Here are the basics of Jetpack Compose.

Enes Varol

Aug 9, 2022

Bad CI/CD Practices

Here are some of the bad CI/CD practices we see on our platform so that you can learn from other's mistakes.

Appcircle Team

Aug 8, 2022

How to Integrate Huawei Push Kit to Android Apps

HUAWEI Push Kit is a messaging service provided for you. Let's look at how we can integrate Push Kit to our Android apps.

Halil Özel

Jul 29, 2022

10 Useful Postman Tips to Boost Your Development Productivity

Postman is an excellent tool for all kinds of developers. Here are 10 useful Postman tips and features of this swiss army knife.

Faruk Toptaş

Jul 25, 2022

What’s New in React 18

As some of you may know, React team is working on React 18 and it will be released soon. Here's what's coming to React 18.

Zafer Ayan

Jun 23, 2022

Developing with Live Activities API in iOS 16

WWDC22 introduced a cool Live Activities API in iOS 16. With it, we can live update a notification instead of sending multiple notifications.

Ali Can Batur

Jun 23, 2022

Swift Charts with SwiftUI – WWDC22

At WWDC22, Apple unveiled Swift Charts, a library to plot graphs and charts. This article includes examples for all data visualization types.

Enes Buğra Yenidünya

Jun 21, 2022

Using SwiftUI inside UICollectionView and UITableView

At WWDC22, Apple introduced UIHostingConfiguration class, which enabled using SwiftUI inside UICollectionView and UITableView.

Ferhan Akkan

Jun 17, 2022

What’s New in UIKit at iOS 16, WWDC22

UIKit got a lot of cool new features at WWDC22. Here's the new features added to UIKit with iOS 16 and how to use them with code samples.

Ferhan Akkan

Jun 13, 2022

What’s New in Swift 5.7, WWDC 22

Great new features await us with Swift 5.7. Here is a list of all the improvements and changes to Swift announced during WWDC22.

Enes Buğra Yenidünya

Jun 12, 2022

What’s New in Xcode 14, WWDC22

WWDC22 had an amazing week of improvements to tools iOS developers use every day. Here's a recap of Xcode 14 updates announced at #WWDC22

Ali Can Batur

Jun 12, 2022

What is New in SwiftUI 4.0, WWDC 2022

SwiftUI is the new, shiny declarative layout API, used for building iOS apps. Here are the features that will be in SwiftUI 4, iOS 16.

Yusuf Demirci

Jun 10, 2022

Directing Users to a Specific Screen via Firebase Dynamic Links in Swift

Firebase Dynamic Links are smart URLs that allow you to send existing and potential users to any location within your iOS or Android app.

Enes Buğra Yenidünya

Jun 9, 2022

What’s New at Android Studio Electric Eel (Google I/O 2022)

We’ve created a comprehensive list of everything announced new at Google I/O 2022 for Android Studio Electric Eel, the newest version.

Appcircle Team

Jun 6, 2022

How to Make Your iOS App Unique

In 2023, there will be 2 million apps in the App Store. Therefore, our apps need to stand out. We tell you how to make your iOS app unique.

Yusuf Demirci

Jun 1, 2022

Creating an iOS Library the Right Way (SPM and CocoaPods)

How can we create an iOS Library and submit them to Swift Package Manager (SPM) and CocoaPods repositories.

Ferhan Akkan

May 28, 2022

What’s New at Android 13 for Developers (Google I/O 2022)

We’ve watched Google I/O 2022 sessions. Here’s a comprehensive list of changes and additions to Android 13, Jetpack and Google Play.

Appcircle Team

May 25, 2022

SwiftUI Alert and Sheets in a Dynamic and Easy Way

Why showing an alert or sheet in SwiftUI is difficult? In this article, we will learn a dynamic, easy way to show a SwiftUI alert or sheet.

Yusuf Demirci

May 25, 2022

Modern Layout on UIKit with UICollectionView Compositional Layout

At WWDC19, Apple introduced Compositional Layout for UICollectionView, along with Diffable Data Sources. This article demonstrates both.

Enes Buğra Yenidünya

May 18, 2022

Dynamic Localization in SwiftUI

We must have seen some cool apps that change the app language in real-time. This article is about how to do dynamic localization in SwiftUI.

Yusuf Demirci

May 12, 2022

Customer Success Story: Hepsiburada Deploys Their “Super App” for Millions of Users with Appcircle

Hepsiburada is one of the biggest eCommerce websites in Turkey. With Appcircle, they established a pipeline for their "super app".

Appcircle Team

May 11, 2022

Error Handling in Swift

Error handling in Swift is a tricky subject. The core principle is to separate error types with associated values in a main error enum.

Yusuf Demirci

Apr 17, 2022

How to Integrate Sonarqube into your CI/CD Workflow

Lots of mobile development teams integrated SonarQube in their CI/CD pipeline. We show you how to integrate SonarQube in a generic way.

Appcircle Team

Apr 11, 2022

Human Readable Xcode Test Results with Slather

Xcode shows the test coverage, but it's hard to visualize and export those results to a human-readable format. Slather for Xcode fixes this.

Appcircle Team

Jan 24, 2022

Resolving Xcode Project Conflicts with Tuist

As your team grows you may start getting git conflicts on .xcodeproj and .xcodeworkspace files. Tuist is a solution to this problem.

Appcircle Team

Jan 18, 2022

How to do code reviews?

Code review is one of the most important steps in developing software. Here are a few principles you can apply with your team.

Erhan Yakut

Jan 6, 2022

Mobile CI/CD Benchmark Report

We've upgraded our iOS build infrastructure. And we compared ours with other mobile CI/CD platforms like Bitrise, Codemagic and App Center.

Appcircle Team

Dec 21, 2021

Sending Push Notifications to React Native Using Firebase

Setting up a push notification system is a tedious process. Services like Google's Firebase aims to make this process easy.

Zafer Ayan

Dec 9, 2021

iOS Code Signing Demystified

If you’re developing an app for iOS, you need to sign your builds in order to distribute them. We explain on how all iOS Code Signing works.

Appcircle Team

Nov 30, 2021

Introduction to Testing React Native Apps

Developing apps using React Native and want to add tests? This guide explains tools and ways to testing React Native apps.

Appcircle Team

Nov 25, 2021

A Complete Guide to Flutter CI/CD for iOS, Android and Web

A comprehensive guide to using CI/CD for Flutter project, from building to distributing to Google Play, App Store, Testflight and Web.

Appcircle Team

Sep 17, 2021

12 Essential Desktop Apps for iOS Developers

While IDEs are capable, some tasks require dedicated software. Here are 12 essential desktop apps we use and recommend for iOS developers.

Appcircle Team

Sep 1, 2021

Major iOS 15 API Changes for Developers

With iOS 15 releasing in 2021, we’ve put up a comprehensive list of major developer-facing iOS15 API changes for app developers.

Appcircle Team

Aug 31, 2021

Appcircle is the #3 Product of the Day on Product Hunt!

Appcircle Team

Jul 4, 2021

Customer Success Story: WeBee Streamlines the Deployment of Hundreds of Apps with Appcircle

Discover how WeBee streamlined mobile DevOps with Appcircle to enhance guest experiences and improve satisfaction.

Appcircle Team

Mar 15, 2021

8 Steps for a Unified and Streamlined Mobile App Lifecycle with AWS and Appcircle

With AWS and Appcircle, you can manage your mobile app lifecycle on a unified platform with the best-in-class solutions.

Appcircle Team

Feb 3, 2021

CI/CD Security in Appcircle

A well-established CI/CD pipeline gets entwined with many enterprise processes and the security of the pipeline gets more and more crucial.

Appcircle Team

Jan 30, 2021

Why Do You Need a Dedicated CI/CD Platform instead of Using Jenkins for Mobile Apps?

Jenkins is a general-purpose CI/CD tool, but you ask how you can use Jenkins for mobile apps or if it’s useful for mobile DevOps.

Appcircle Team

Dec 29, 2020

Deploy iOS and Android Apps to AWS Device Farm and Run Tests

AWS Device Farm is an application testing service that runs your tests concurrently on multiple mobile devices and generates videos and logs.

Appcircle Team

Oct 29, 2020

12 App Store Review Tips: How to Get Along Well with Apple and Avoid App Rejections

For a better app store review, don't ask yourself "How can I avoid being rejected?", instead ask "How can I make Apple like my app?"

Appcircle Team

Oct 24, 2020

Guide to Building Flutter Web Apps with Appcircle

Appcircle Team

Oct 12, 2020

How to Build and Deploy Apps to Google Play Console Testing and Apple TestFlight

We will be setting a mobile CI/CD pipeline for deployment to Google Play Console Testing (tracks) and Apple Testflight in a few easy steps.

Appcircle Team

Oct 12, 2020

How to Deploy Mobile App to Amazon S3 with Appcircle

Appcircle is a CI/CD platform to build and distribute your mobile apps. In this article, we'll deploy a mobile app to Amazon S3 after build.

Appcircle Team

Sep 16, 2020

How to Enable Slack Notifications for Mobile App Builds with Appcircle

You can connect Appcircle to your Slack workspace to set up branch based build notifications to be sent to the selected channels.

Appcircle Team

Aug 31, 2020

How to Use Fastlane with Appcircle for Automated Mobile CI/CD

With Appcircle, you can use Fastlane as a workflow step in your mobile CI/CD. To start, you need a Fastfile in your repository.

Appcircle Team

Aug 26, 2020

5 Differences Between Web/Backend CI/CD vs Mobile CI/CD

In this article, we will mention 5 of the major differences between "traditional" CI/CD for web/backend apps vs mobile CI/CD.

Appcircle Team

Aug 10, 2020

How to Integrate Firebase Test Lab to the Mobile CI/CD Pipeline for Android

In this article, we go through the steps of integrating Firebase Test Lab to your mobile CI/CD pipeline for continuous testing of mobile apps.

Appcircle Team

Jul 28, 2020

Guide to Automated Mobile CI/CD for React Native with Appcircle

In this article, we will be building and deploying a React Native app with Appcircle CI/CD with no need for a Mac or any third-party tools.

Appcircle Team

Jun 25, 2020

Guide to Automated Mobile CI/CD for Flutter Projects with Appcircle

In this article, we will be building and deploying a Flutter app with Appcircle CI/CD with no need for a Mac or any third-party tools.

Appcircle Team

Jun 19, 2020

Best Mobile Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) Tools

Here are the best continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) tools for mobile app development. List and compare all mobile CI/CD.

Appcircle Team

Jun 10, 2020

10 Common Mobile App Testing Challenges from a Tester’s Perspective

For the end user, your app is all about its quality. We look at the common mobile app testing challenges from a tester’s perspective.

Appcircle Team

May 8, 2020

10 Common Problems in the Mobile App Lifecycle and How Appcircle Solves Them

We focus on how important using the right tool helps solve most of the common problems in mobile app projects.

Appcircle Team

May 5, 2020

10 Operational and Business Benefits of Mobile CI/CD

Learn how mobile CI/CD benefits your business by helping your mobile development team to release higher quality apps in less time.

Appcircle Team

May 4, 2020

What is CI/CD and why do you need CI/CD in mobile app projects?

What is CI/CD? Continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) have become a crucial part of any mobile app development process.

Appcircle Team

Apr 30, 2020

How to Access Xcode 12 GM (previously Beta) for iOS Builds?

Appcircle Team

Apr 29, 2020

How to Use Environment Variables with Gradle

A short guide on how Android developers can use environment variables using Gradle’s module-level build configuration.

Appcircle Team

Apr 23, 2020

What is the Alternative to Xcode for Windows for Mobile App Archive, Sign and Simulation?

There are workarounds to use Xcode for Windows, but each has their own complexities when building, previewing and distributing mobile apps.

Appcircle Team

Apr 21, 2020

How to Test Your Mobile Apps in the Browser

Testing a mobile application on all physical devices is impossible. Online simulators and emulators solve this problem.

umutkazdal

Apr 13, 2020

What is NoOps and How to Achieve NoOps in Mobile App Development?

What is NoOps? In short, NoOps can be considered as integrating and automating (wherever possible) DevOps processes.

Appcircle Team

Aug 9, 2019

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