As you may have noticed from our blog, we’ve been talking a lot about Unity lately. Obviously, this is for a reason. And now I can officially say that Codemagic supports Unity CI/CD. What’s more, it’s publicly available — you can try it out right now! Try Unity CI/CD now! For those of you who are still reading, let me tell you a story.
Are you about to start your next mobile app project and can’t decide whether you should use Flutter or native languages? If yes, then this article is for you. Stefan Ionescu focuses in this article on the differences between Flutter vs native development from different perspectives.
As an Apple platforms developer, you have surely come across a scenario in which you have had to create new screenshots for App Store Connect while releasing a new version. The designer may have given you the screenshots beforehand, or maybe you have manually opened the corresponding simulators and taken the screenshots yourself. You must upload a minimum of three screenshots for each of the four devices on App Store Connect. That is a minimum of 12 screenshots per release.
TL;DR: You can use Codemagic CI/CD to build and publish Electron desktop apps. In this article, we will create a sample app for monitoring and trading stocks using React and Electron and build it for macOS, Windows, and Linux using Codemagic.
The word “isolate” shouldn’t be new to you — since the pandemic started, it has become a buzzword. Chances are you’ve also heard the term used in relation to Flutter, but what exactly is an isolate in this context? How does Dart execute code? How do you implement a isolate? All these questions will be answered in this article. If you’re a beginner in Flutter development, this article is for you, as I’ve tried to simplify a lot of concepts.
TL;DR: You can automate the publishing of your Unity VR apps to the Oculus Store using Codemagic and the Oculus CLI tools. Creating VR Unity apps is really cool… but how can you easily share them with your friends during the dev phase? In a previous article, I discussed why automating building and publishing of your Unity projects can be interesting and useful, particularly when you want to get continuous feedback from your nice beta testers.
In your iOS development learning journey, you want to understand and use the best practices while writing code. These include working with Clean Architecture, writing good tests for your native iOS app, and knowing how and what to test. This post discusses some open-source iOS Swift projects that you can take inspiration from to learn better development practices, such as: Build, test and deliver mobile apps in record time Start now
TL;DR: Codemagic is launching the M1 Mac mini instance type. To be among the first to try out building your apps on these super-fast machines, sign up here.
Data, data, and data. Everything we see in today’s world is just data. So how can we get data into our app? How can we integrate APIs into our app? Let’s find out! There are a lot of ways we show data in our app, such as: The most common method is to show data from a database or public APIs. Even loading data from a database involves using APIs, though these can be private. So, let’s see how you can integrate APIs, fetch data from a public API, and use it in your Flutter app!
TL;DR: Unity does give you the test reports but not in a format that is readable by CI/CD. We write a C# script that transforms the NUnit XML format to JUnit XML that Codemagic can read and use to present you with a report on how your tests went. A few weeks ago, I wrote an article about unit testing Unity projects in which I discussed why testing is so valuable for game devs and showed how to re-create a basic Pong game with some unit tests.
