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New report: The state of mobile shopping apps in 2021

Our brand-new report examines the ever-evolving shopping industry, delving into the trends and challenges faced by mobile retailers. Read on to find out the state of the industry, the latest product trends and cutting-edge features, and the key Mobile DevOps practices used by some of the leading shopping apps.

Updates from Bugfender Q3, 2021

We’re very proud of our first version of crash symbolication and mapping but we’re still working on follow-up versions with improvements. Please feel free to contact us with any feedback.📲 Enable/disable multiple devices at once: in the Device Config. tab, apply a filter to find the devices you want to change, then select Mark all as… and select Enabled or Disabled.

Mussel | Verified Steps on Bitrise

As every team wants to speed up their app regression processes, it’s important to find a quick and easy, maintainable solution to test Push Notifications and Universal Links. Testing these is a real challenge and conventional methods will probably slow you down, accumulating the time you would normally like to spend with UI tests. Mussel will help you ease these responsibilities: it’s an open-source framework built by the amazing mobile team at Compass, testing Push Notifications, Universal Links, and Routing in XCUITests.

Sofy | Verified Steps on Bitrise

Used by Microsoft, British Telecom, Forrester and many more, Sofy.ai is a no-code mobile app testing platform for engineers. Sofy has their own device farm with hundreds of real devices, so performing manual and automated tests are easy, just as regression testing. It's a no-code automation platform: it means you don’t have to write a single line of code. You can have the cake and eat it too!

Keep all your team secrets in one place with global variables

This video will teach you how to store sensitive values. Codemagic has added a Global variables and secrets section to the team settings page so you can manage all your secrets in one place for your codemagic.yaml files. This means you will only have to update that expired certificate in one place, instead of all your apps.

Demo: Introducing Build Insights on Bitrise

Monitor and improve your Bitrise performance with Build Insights! 📊 Build Insights is a monitoring tool that allows you to track metrics detailing the performance of your Bitrise builds. Track your metrics on app-, Workflow-, and Step-level and use the data to optimize your builds. In this quick demo, we're introducing the dashboard's main features.

The alternative app store opportunity for Android developers

Apple and Google’s dominance over mobile app stores has never seemed less certain, and there are many signs that new payment methods and alternative app stores might become the norm. They aren’t exactly new, though. What are alternative app stores? What opportunities do they provide? And why aren’t developers publishing there en masse, today?