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Codemagic helps Mobi Lab deliver mission-critical projects while saving them time and money

I am a software engineer and part of a team at Mobi Lab, a design agency. In Mobi Lab, we build successful digital products and augmented reality solutions for people on the go. In this post, I will share what we have learned about the importance of continuous integration and delivery (“CI/CD”) and how Codemagic improves our workflow and makes our clients happy.

Upcoming changes to Google Play for developers

You may have heard the adage of “quality over quantity”, and it seems that Google is taking this saying to heart regarding the quality of apps developers submit to Google Play. Back in November 2023, Google published an article on the Android Developers Blog outlining their intent to improve the quality of Android apps in the Play Store. In this article, we’ll take a look at how things were, and what the upcoming changes mean for developers who want to publish to the Google Play store.

Leveraging Emerge Tools in CI/CD Pipelines for iOS App Size Optimisation.

The app size on my phone is 1GB which is double the size of my next largest banking app and 10 times the size of the following two. Does SoFi care to optimize the app? I’m hoping getting rid of the crypto exchange will reduce the overall size.” Said Mizzo12 on Reddit For too long, have we sat silent and allowed our app sizes to grow too big! While some of us enjoy the luxury of 5G internet and what seems like infinite storage, not everyone does! So..

Dr. Bazel: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Building Systems

Building software can be as easy as baking a cake, or as hard as rocket science. It all depends on the tools you use. As a developer, you’ve probably encountered issues like inconsistent builds, long build times, and dependency hell. If you want to make your life easier and your software better, you may want to try Bazel, the ultimate build tool that can handle anything from cupcakes to spaceships.

100% Flakiness-free UI test automation with Kaspresso and Allure TestOps

UI testing in mobile app development is a challenging task due to multiple factors such as flaky tests, saving screenshots, printing useful logs and readability of test codes. We will be talking about a new UI testing framework Kaspresso for Android apps and how it is different from other frameworks when it comes down to solving these challenges.

How to Test Native Features in Flutter Apps with Patrol and Codemagic

“It’s no use! I can’t run an end to end test with Flutter’s integration tests”, exclaimed one of our customers about 9 months ago. I asked what the problem was and they explained that they were using Google Authentication for logging in and used the google_sign_in package for and it wasn’t possible use Flutter’s integration tests to interact with the login screens.

Interview with Lucas Josefiak (CEO & Co-Founder of Widgetbook)

In this video, Taha Tesser from Codemagic interviewed Lucas Josefiak, CEO and Co-Founder of Widgetbook) to gain insight into Widgetbook open-source package and Widgetbook Cloud platform. To learn how to build Widgetbook using Codemagic, check out this article written by Taha Tesser.

Securing CI/CD with 1Password

Secret management in shared environments like Continuous Integration and Delivery services is challenging. It’s essential to keep secrets secure and ensure they don’t end up in the wrong place, like logs or code repositories. Integrating solutions like 1Password into CI/CD workflows offer the advantage of centralising secret management, and it also allows you to encrypt every secret, providing controlled programmatic access to applications.

Implementing Instant Object Detection in Live Image Streams using TFLite in Flutter

In Flutter’s early days in 2019, I developed a live object detection system for a major German company, despite the platform’s constraints. With release of Flutter 3.7 and advancements of TensorFlow have catalyzed the need to refine or overhaul this approach. This article discusses the newest techniques in live-stream object detection as showcased in the flutter-tflite GitHub repository.