Our Continuous Delivery Journey :: with App-Center
As we saw in the previous episode of Jombay and the CD …. Nopes. So, setting up Jenkins for CD of Android apps was painful. A lot of things to take care of before things could go possibly as expected. As I told here, we ended up uploading the Android apps on HockeyApp. It is a great collaboration tool for testers and developers and soon it will be transitioning into App-Center. Here is their transition plan.
It took us around 10 minutes to set up CD for our Android apps get going with App-Center. I believe it is a one-stop-shop for getting the builds delivered to your team in a seamless way. There are various options available as a simple form. Users can integrate GitHub and can configure their builds for each branch. Here are a set of things you could do with each configuration.
- You can define a build variant, build type.
- For release builds, you can upload keystore(you have to enter passwords for key and keystore). Something which became too painful with Jenkins.
3. Upload and run custom scripts while building.
4. Increment version code.
5. Run unit tests.
6. Define Collaborators and share the successful builds with email notifications.
There are more options in App-Center and I strongly suggest you explore more. We solved all our problems faced during Jenkins integration, and AppCenter still remains a reliable and core tool for our team collaboration.
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