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Building a robust dev/artist collaboration pipeline for your Unity projects with Git and Codemagic

TL;DR: Collaboration between Unity developers and artists can be enhanced by adding some automation tools. For example, using automatic build triggering once a new asset is added allows the artist to see how it looks in the game without bothering the developer, which reduces waiting times and context switching.

Scan your builds for vulnerabilities by using mobsfscan with Codemagic

With the increase in malware attacks on devices, engineers are putting more effort into ensuring the products they build are not vulnerable to these attacks. One such tool that can help mobile engineers reduce vulnerabilities is Mobile Security Framework (MobSF).

Create 2D games quickly and easily with Flutter Flame

Flutter enables you to develop applications for platforms such as Android, iOS, desktop, and the web from a single codebase. As a multiplatform UI toolkit, the Flutter team is dedicated to enabling all kinds of developers to quickly build and release applications. Game developers, for instance, are now able to build beautiful game apps without worrying about performance, load times, and app sizes. This tutorial will provide you with an introduction to the Flutter Flame game engine.

Setting up CI/CD for a Godot game

TL;DR: Setting up CI/CD pipelines for games made with the Godot engine is quite simple, thanks to the fact that it’s easy to work with Godot using the command-line interface. This means we can quickly install Godot on a Codemagic build machine and automate the export of Godot games, though we’ll need to specify some configurations as well. Let’s see how to automate Godot game projects! These past few months, I’ve talked about using Codemagic to build and publish Unity games.

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.

Best Practices and Business Benefits of DevOps Transformation

Even though DevOps adoption and implementation appear to be simple, implementing DevOps at scale remains a difficult task for many enterprises. The fact that the DevOps journey is purely technical is something that many businesses misunderstand. Contrary to popular belief, proper DevOps implementation involves more than just technology. Processes and platforms, tools and technology, governance and metrics, people and culture, and management are all part of the DevOps journey. This is where Cigniti's expertise emerges.

Best Practices and Business Benefits of DevOps Transformation

Every enterprise in today’s competitive environment is undergoing digital transformation. Businesses are attempting to improve their present IT infrastructure and techniques while welcoming new technologies and software development approaches to stay ahead of the competition. Enterprises’ ability to achieve all of this is highly dependent on their willingness to implement best practices for a successful DevOps transformation.

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.

Continuous Performance Testing in CI Pipelines: CircleCI

With over 50,000 active organizations and 250 million workflows, CircleCI is one of the most popular networked CI platforms. When getting started with CI pipelines, teams typically want to ensure that code will compile, pass unit tests, and build a container image. After catching these low hanging fruit of syntax errors, engineering teams need to dig much further to find business logic and scalability errors.

How Automation Is Changing ALM

The DevOps model has become ubiquitous in product development, integrating teams that historically have worked in silos — to enable faster, more effective responses to business needs. At the heart of a successful DevOps pipeline is a clear workflow that is derived from the development lifecycle. While existing tools are essential to track requirements and artifacts throughout product development, these tools have not always kept up with the complexities of a CI/CD working practice.