Isn't it remarkable how the market for android app development has seen such exponential growth, with an unheard-of CAGR of almost 8.83%? It's also projected to hit the US$673.80bn mark by the end of 2027, all credit goes to the ongoing technological advancements and the digital transformation happening across industries. ‍ But amidst this surge, have businesses truly pondered the intricacies of mobile app development? And what makes a particular app stand out and perform exceptionally well?

Explore the latest updates in Bitrise this month, including direct and bulk invitations in Workspaces, configuring SCIM with Okta, and new pricing tiers for Release Management. Discover what's new in Bitrise!

Microfrontends is a modern front-end architectural approach, by which web applications are segmented (or decomposed) into smaller self-contained units, allowing for easier management and scalability. You can our introduction article to Microfrontends to understand better this architecture approach. Today we’re going to provide a step-by-step guide to the process of building a real-world application using React and Module Federation.

Discover how adopting DevOps principles can transform your organization's mobile app development. We dive into the benefits of DevOps, from enhancing collaboration to streamlining production pipelines with Bitrise's solutions.

This article was origninally published here. In this article, we’re spilling the beans on why we switched from Azure to Codemagic and showing you exactly how to supercharge your CI/CD game. We’re covering the entire spectrum — from compiling and creating release notes to testing and deployment. Let’s rewind a bit to our iOS developers’ struggles. Our CI process (think builds, tests, and coverage) was taking a chunky 40–50 minutes.

Headline: The transition to Codemagic made our CI builds faster and more reliable and positively impacted the experience of contributors contributing to our open-source project, Tuist. Thanks to Codemagic’s support, we can bring new free goods to the Swift community and the ecosystem of app developers.

In today's fast-paced software development industry, it is highly critical to deliver high-quality web and mobile applications rapidly is paramount. This is where automation testing services come in, and WebdriverIO emerges as a powerful test automation solution. Designed for the modern web, WebdriverIO is a test automation framework that seamlessly interacts with both web applications and native mobile applications on iOS and android devices.

Explore why Bitrise is the top choice for mobile app developers seeking powerful alternatives to the retiring Visual Studio App Center. Dive into why, and read our migration guide.

In this blog post, explore the unique challenges of Continuous Deployment in native mobile apps, including the complexities of app store distribution and rollback limitations, and discover insights on navigating these hurdles while striving for efficient CI/CD workflows in mobile development.

In iOS, WebSockets enable real-time communication between a client (an iOS app) and a server. Unlike traditional HTTP connections which are stateless, short-lived and request data on demand, WebSockets use a single long-lived connection to send and receive data simultaneously. This significantly reduces response times which is crucial for apps that rely on instant updates and live data to support functions such as chat and multiplayer games.

Discover how the latest enhancements to the Alerts feature in Bitrise Insights can streamline your mobile app development with a new UI, advanced filtering, and comprehensive metrics.

Geospatial data can give a business a competitive edge — especially when it’s combined with the company’s own data resources. Considering a new store location? You’ll want to analyze not just where your nearest competitors and potential customers are, but also retail footfall numbers, historical traffic patterns, distance from distribution centers, environmental factors, potential delivery times to customers and more. You need geospatial data to make it all happen.

Let’s start at the very beginning, so it’s clear exactly what we’re talking about here – in Swift, networking is the process of sending and receiving data between an iOS application and a remote server or another device over the internet.

In the ever-evolving world of tech, there's a critical decision that both businesses and developers grapple with - choosing the perfect tech stack for developing mobile apps. But why does this decision weigh so heavily on everyone's minds? Well, it all boils down to how this choice impacts the performance, scalability, and security of mobile applications. Choosing the appropriate tools requires delving into your app requirements alongside a thorough analysis of the end goal.

Dive deeper into our Bitrise build pipeline series with a focus on conditionally running workflows for optimized CI/CD processes. Discover how to use resources more efficiently, achieve faster build times, and enhance your deployment strategy.

If you’re building for mobile apps, you need Realm in your life. It’s specifically designed for mobile devs and even though it’s available on multiple platforms, it’s typically used to develop iOS apps, using Swift. Built on top of SQLite Realm Swift is a very high-level abstraction layer that simplifies database operations for the developer. Today we’re going to unpack it, with a guide that drills so far down into the subject, it’s practically in Australia.

Explore our Bitrise build pipelines series for a deep dive into optimizing Mobile DevOps. Led by experts Zsolt Vicze and Szabolcs Toth, learn to refine app development and speed up release cycles, starting with sharing files in Bitrise workflows.

We're excited to introduce our comprehensive Release Management add-on, now featuring both a Free and a new, automation-driven Paid offering.

Core Data enables us to manage the model layer of an Apple application. This layer is a crucial part of our app’s engine room, allowing the pretty bits at the front end to interact with the data and business logic at the back. We love Core Data because it provides a powerful database technology framework, and it’s built on top of the SQLite management system, which requires zero configuration or external storage space.