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Building Android apps with Jenkins: release management

The previous blog post of this series discusses what I think makes CI/CD for mobile app development a unique kind of animal, and my first steps in building Android apps with Jenkins. We were left with a working declarative pipeline per branch, one Docker image per branch too, and an application binary ready to be deployed. Ready? Release management I was able to find...

Bruno Verachten
Kevin Martens May 2, 2023
Building Android apps with Jenkins: an introduction

Why is mobile CI/CD special? In 2020, a surprising 33% of professional mobile app developers were not using Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) practices, which is 18% more than web developers. There are several reasons why this is the case: Unique needs: Unlike web applications, mobile applications have different requirements, which means that mobile CI/CD requires a different approach and dedicated tools. Tightly controlled ecosystems:...

Bruno Verachten
Kevin Martens April 7, 2023
Android and Jenkins: what is the limit?

After reading the title, you may be thinking "Wait, what? Is Jenkins somehow limited in building Android apps?" You can relax, as I may have phrased it incorrectly. We’re not talking about building Android apps with Jenkins, which has no limitations as far as I know. We’re talking about building something with Jenkins, using an Android device as a Jenkins node, or potentially as...

Bruno Verachten
Kevin Martens March 30, 2023
Naively Building Android Apps with Jenkins. Not Natively, Naively. - DevOps World 2022

This is a speaker blogpost for a DevOps World 2022 talk in Orlando, Florida Come join me at DevOps World 2022 for "Naively Building Android Apps with Jenkins. Not Natively, Naively.", a talk about my journey with Jenkins while trying to build and publish Android applications without prior Jenkins knowledge. I’ve been tinkering with various CI/CD tools for years (Gitlab CI, Circle...

Bruno Verachten August 1, 2022
Moving from buddybuild to Jenkins for Android Developers

Last week, buddybuild — a hosted continuous integration service focused on mobile apps — announced that it had been acquired by Apple, and consequently its complete Android offering, along with its free tier for iOS users, will be discontinued at the beginning of March. This was a fairly undesirable way to start 2018 for buddybuild’s Android users and, with less than...

Christopher Orr January 8, 2018

	
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Building Android apps with Jenkins: release management

Building Android apps with Jenkins: an introduction

Android and Jenkins: what is the limit?

Naively Building Android Apps with Jenkins. Not Natively, Naively. - DevOps World 2022

Moving from buddybuild to Jenkins for Android Developers