I am looking for the best way to get my Xcode Apps on CI.
I already have a designated Jenkins server which is Integrated with BitBucket.
I want to know what would be the best option.
Do I use Xcode server or is there a way I can also use my Jenkins server to build my Xcode apps through a slave server that is run on a Mac?
Thank you for your Help.
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We have developed Xamarin.iOS and Xamarin.Android app using Visual studio.
and we want a way to automate deployment as we have repository on bitbucket
On search we found there are Jenkins, and MacinCloud, Bitrise.
What will be best option to execute following process.
1. Get code from repository .
2. Build ipa,apk for both android and iOS platform.
3. Deploy to Appstore/Testflight.
Do any of above provide facility to configure and deploy app for multiple environment(DEV/ST/PROD).
Thanks
To address your goals 1-by-1:
Get code from repository
You will want a CI/CD tool: Jenkins, Azure Pipelines, Bamboo will help you automate the build process. The first step in most of these tools will be to grab the source code from the repository.
Build ipa,apk for both android and iOS platform
You will need a Mac computer for the .ipa. There is no easy way around this requirement as you need XCode and an Apple developer account in order to build the signed .ipa for iOS deployments. The android apk can be built on pretty much any platform though. Because you will need a Mac, you may end up having to setup a remote agent for your CI/CD service in order to build on that machine.
Deploy to Appstore/Testflight
You can either script this part, use a plugin with your CI/CD tool, or use a 3rd party entirely. Some popular 3rd party options are Microsoft's Appcenter (formally HockeyApp) or Fastlane.
Do any of above provide facility to configure and deploy app for multiple environment(DEV/ST/PROD)?
Yes. All of the CI/CD tools mentioned above support this. Additionally, the Google Play store supports different release tracks, and you can setup different deployment strategies with iOS depending on the tooling you end up selecting.
I have a problem. I need to build a job in my Jenkins server hosted by macmini (localhost) to automatic build a deploy for my mobile hybrid apps. That's apps was building with ionic2, and need a deploy for Android (apk) and for iOS (ipa).
But when i run a build from Jenkins, with this shell command
I get this error
that's not all... because i try to execute, from the jenkins folder, the npm i and the result was this:
When i try to build my application from other "folder" and not from jenkins, they works correctly. How i can solve?
Without more information hard to say; you can either just script the things you do when you deploy "manually", or you might want to try a CLI tool like https://www.bitrise.io/cli or https://fastlane.tools which can auto-scan your project and configure a suitable configuration which is then easier to tweak.
In case of Bitrise CLI the base config can be generated with bitrise init in the repo root, and you can also use a visual editor to modify your configuration: https://discuss.bitrise.io/t/how-to-experiment-with-bitrise-configs-locally-on-your-mac-linux/1751
After a lot of time, just find the solution. Jenkins have a own "tools management". So i need to install, into jenkins, a property version of nodeJS, Npm and all other tools i need to deploy the application.
So, first of all you need to install property plugin (in my case nodejs).
After this, going into Jenkins Management System and configure a NodeJS version. That's all
Is it possible to use Bamboo for iOS CI? Since all developers on my company using Bamboo on their projects (Java based), I would like also to use Bamboo as a platform for iOS CI.
I'm assuming you want to do iOS CI on Mac OS.
If that's true then it's possible and I have setup that topology in my company, using a server-agent approach.
Bamboo agent is a Java program which could be run on Mac OS. Let the agent talk to your current Bamboo server and handle all iOS build/test.
Bamboo does not officially support iOS as a 1st class citizen yet. However, there is this beta "labs" project that looks promising. It seems to suggest that official support is incoming soon. I too would love for Atlassian to include iOS/XCode project support.
I want to configure IOS project jobs in linux jenkins. Is it possible to configure IOS jobs in Linux Jenkins, without OSX PC.
You need to have a OSX machine running. It's a matter of licensing (same problem appears for Visual Studio). But there is an XCode Plugin to help you with it Jenkins Xcode Plugin.
edit:
there are several tutorials out there on how to give jenkins an iOS-build slave (check out one).
We recently upgraded to TFS2012 and now we have an MVC app and a WCF Service both built in VS2012 that WILL compile and build but will NOT deploy. Any ideas on what I should research? I read that MS now only allows deployment of certain types of files and web files are not of that type. Thanks so much for your time.
The default build processes in a standard on-premises TFS2012 installation do not do any deployment out of the box. Therefore in answer to your question I would personally look at the custom deployment steps that are happening and maybe put some additional logging in to identify the problem.
Often being able to remote desktop into the build server and then perform the steps that your build process would have taken is a good way to check things like this.
As the upgrade process usually involves re-installing the build agent my guess would be that it could be a permissions problem, maybe the build agent was installed as a different user to how it was running in the TFS 2010 configuration and that process/user does not have permissions to deploy the build. But that is just a guess - digging into the deployment steps that you added to your build process should help you track it down. Good luck!