Automation

The code-compile-deploy process can be pretty hectic and take long periods of waiting for an average Android developer. When it comes to deploying your shiny new feature to test environments, the developer often has to build, test, generate an executable file (apk) and manually upload the apk by using Firebase App Distribution, this requires a number of steps and a series of wait-time at intervals. In this article, I will be talking about speeding up the process of deploying beta builds to testers with a run of a command. ...

Introduction In this article, I would be showing you how to set up continuous integration for Android projects. Now, for those of you who really don’t know much about continuous integration or don’t know what the benefits are, in simple terms, it is a software development practise where multiple integrations for changes are done frequently, including automated builds and testing for each changes integrated. This makes it easy to detect errors in the code early on with a realtime feedback loop. ...