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May 2022

What is GameCI?

TL;DR: GameCI is a toolbox for building Unity games, which contains a collection of Dockerized Unity Editors for different target platforms, and documentation to set up pipelines using GitLab CI and GitHub Actions. You can use GameCI with any CI platfrom that supports Docker, even with Codemagic. Alternatively, you can use Codemagic’s preinstalled Unity Editor, or install another version.

How to build a better finance app: advice from a Principal Engineer at NatWest bank

Adam Law shares some practices and processes that his team uses to ensure that their finance app continues to serve the customer in the best possible way. We’re sharing them with you in the hopes that you pick up something new for your team!

Quick Qlik - Qlik Sense Mobile Design Tips and New Landscape Mode

When designing mobile analytics solutions for Qlik Sense Mobile you want to make sure your customers have the best user experience. Qlik Sense sheet properties provide small screen layout settings, configurable sheet sizes and grid spacing adjustments to style your dashboards to deliver this experience. Chart objects are responsive and can be displayed in a list view or grid view on your device and now with support for Landscape mode your visualizations can be displayed just like they are when using a web browser on a computer. Making it easier to view and your mobile Qlik sense apps.

Test-driven development: an introduction for mobile app developers

Test-driven development, or TDD, is a testing method where you first convert the feature requirements to tests and then write code to make the tests pass. In this article, we take an objective look at test-driven development, its benefits, downsides, and best use cases.

Cross-Platform End-to-End Testing - Explained with Real-life scenarios

The definition of end-to-end testing is as simple as “testing the application from one end to another”. A lot of the time people do generalize end-to-end testing as “testing done to test the application from beginning to end”. However, in an application, you may certainly define a beginning (generally the home page) but there can be a lot of endings. For example, one eCommerce application’s end-user flow may look like this: Another flow may look like this.

Flutter builds are way faster with M1 machines: A comparison of VMs

In November 2020, Apple released the M1 MacBook and, one year later, the M1 Pro/Max chips. Since then, we have all read and heard from other people about the crazy performance improvements. Perhaps you already read the tweet by Jameson Williams (a staff software engineer at Reddit): So we know that M1 machines are fast, but should we use them in CI/CD to speed up our pipeline? To help answer that question, we compared the M1 mini, Mac Pro, and Mac mini for iOS and macOS builds with Codemagic.

Interview tips when appearing for QA roles

Hello Peeps, I hope you are all doing good. Software job trends are changing frequently. To match that, the expectations for Software Testers and Quality Assurance (QA) roles are also changing. Most organizations realized the importance of software testing and the testers. In this era, testing is also evolving to a greater extent. Also, testers are involved in multiple software development phases due to the influence of Agile methodology.

Deploy to Bitrise.io Step Changes  Bitrise Feature Updates

The recently released 2.0.7 version for the “Deploy to Bitrise.io - Apps, Logs, Artifacts” Step switched storing artifacts from AWS S3 to Google Cloud Storage, which means improvements in speed, especially for testing and deployment. For getting these improvements, please make sure you are using version 2.0.7 (or above) for the “Deploy to Bitrise.io - Apps, Logs, Artifacts” Step. We suggest locking the Step to the 2.x.x version as soon as possible to gain speed improvements instantly.

Updating your dependencies for M1 Macs and CI/CD

TL;DR: This article covers how to update dependencies for Homebrew, CocoaPods, Carthage, Ruby, and more if you are using M1 Macs. However, for the M1 Mac minis available on Codemagic, you don’t have to do anything described in this article — everything is already preinstalled and preconfigured, so you can just use them right away.

5G - Myths vs Realities

So, in the end, it is not necessarily a matter of the myths vs realities of 5G – it is more about the timing. Everything we are hearing about 5G and the promise it holds is true. It will all just take more time for reality to catch up to the hype. And with that, we are encouraging all our clients that while they should not be stressed, they should certainly have their eyes wide open about how 5G will come into play, says Chris Manuel, Vice President, Cigniti Technologies.

UDO Games: With Codemagic everyone can trigger a build

UDO Games is a mobile game studio founded in Turkey in 2013. It is one of the oldest gaming companies in Ankara. Over the course of years, UDO Games has worked on hundreds of games and launched dozens of hit titles with well-known publishers. More than 70 million players have played hyper-casual games created by the studio.

Most Common Myths Around Test Automation By Rahul Parwal

A common theme among most software testing organizations is their escalating interest in Test Automation. While test automation has grown in popularity, there are still many myths and biases surrounding it. Such myths can unknowingly create a self-limiting boundary and negatively impact the possibilities of test automation. Testsigma, a no-code test automation tool that is for everyone, is also free and open source.

What's new on Google I/O 2022 for developers: Key announcements

Sundar Pichai starts the Keynote by emphasizing Google’s mission to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. New software features were announced, ranging from updates to Google Translate and Maps, and automated summarisation in Google Docs and Meet, all the way to the amazing Multisearch feature, to focusing more on inclusivity and equality with Google’s software, to emphasis on the security, and to multi-device experiences.

5G - Myths vs Realities

“5G is coming! I saw the commercial!” “No, 5G is already here. Didn’t you see the other commercial?” “Yes, but I don’t have 5G, do you?” “Yes, I have had it for the last year. Well, I think I have. What is 5G anyway?” Have we ever seen anything so overhyped yet, at the same time, so misunderstood? Has there ever been a major technical advancement, that at the same time is already here, yet seemingly so far off in the future?

Mobile Testing Guide: How to test Android and iOS apps

Have you ever used an app on your mobile device and experienced slow load times, crashes, freezing screens, and privacy breaches? Or has your team discovered an error in an existing functionality weeks after you’ve launched an app? If you are a mobile app user, the answer is likely yes. As a consumer, you may have been triggered to delete the app completely, reinstall it, or download a competitor’s app.

How to set up SonarQube and integrate it with Codemagic

SonarQube by SonarSource is the leading tool for continuously inspecting the code quality and security of your codebase and guiding development teams during code reviews. It is an open-source tool that has support for 29 programming languages as of the time of writing this article, and the number is growing. SonarQube’s key features include.

How to release your Flutter app to App Center for beta testing

Sharing your application with real users in real environments before your app goes live has to be one of the most exciting stages of app development. You get to release your application to targeted users to test and uncover bugs in your app — in other words, to beta test it. Speed and automation are critical factors when releasing your app to beta testers.

Multi-flavored authentication in Flutter using flutter_bloc

In this tutorial, we will learn the definitions of the different stages of production and their importance in development. We will also cover how to use different Firebase configurations in various environments. Additionally, we will learn about bloc widgets and what they do while managing our state in our Flutter application.