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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.

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!

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?

Managing Secrets in a central location: Secret Envs filtering

We’ve just released (the first phase of) a new feature called Secret Envs filtering that enables managing secrets in a central location. Now you can set env vars as secrets from within your Workflows, mask them, and with a Script Step, use secrets from an external vault/company’s own service.

DeviceFarmer | Verified Steps on Bitrise

Previously known as OpenSTF (STF: smartphone test farm), DeviceFarmer is a web application used for debugging Android smartphones, smartwatches, and other gadgets remotely, from the comfort of your browser. Bitrise Verified Steps are official integrations developed and maintained by the service owner. If you'd like to know more about our Verified Step Program and create your Verified Step, read more about it here. Feel free to reach out to us on Twitter or on our public Slack with your experiences about the Step, or to send us any great ideas that would help mobile devs in their daily tasks.