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In the article, we discussed three of the biggest challenges for mobile engineering teams when it comes to DevOps adoption.

Learn the latest best practices for knowing which mobile devices to test on, plus our recommended devices to test on by region and business size. With the rapidly increasing popularity and complexity of mobile apps, you need to make sure your app works as intended across various device models, operating systems, and browsers.

In this post, we explain what cloud mobile testing is, the benefits of cloud mobile testing, and how to get started.

TL;DR: Mason is a Dart package that allows you to create files and directories based on templates. You can use Mason in your Flutter projects by first creating and registering the templates (aka bricks) and then utilizing them to create files and folders. Alternatively, you can use bricks made by others from GitHub or BrickHub.dev.

There are a number of things to consider when automating your mobile app tests, but first and foremost is to decide which tests should be and can be automated. This means understanding the business goals that are most important to your organization, as well as the risks you want to manage and mitigate. Mobile app testing is ultimately about managing risk, and the only way to do that is to align testing practices with the most critical business processes and goals you need to cover.

TL;DR: Caching the Library folder can significantly speed up your Unity builds in CI/CD environments. Codemagic CI/CD also allows you to cache the Unity version of your project so that you don’t need to re-download it each time. When you work on complex Unity projects and start adding more and more resources, you’ll quickly notice that the build times in your Codemagic workflow grow as well.

Podcasts are a great way to learn from industry experts about specific topics. For people in mobile engineering or Mobile DevOps, there are some great tech and developer-geared podcasts available. Here’s a list of four podcast recommendations for mobile developers.

Many companies tell you that “the security of our customers’ data is very important to us” in their marketing communications. And you believe them, for a while. But then you discover they were hacked with an open FTP server, using a password like “nameOfTheCompany2022”, and you realise that it’s not that important after all. Why do we mention this, you ask? Well, a few months ago Bugfender got ISO 27001-certified.