September 2023 Summaries

Runtastic GmbH, a digital health and fitness company from Austria, has two main mobile apps: adidas Running and adidas Training, with 364 million downloads and 197 million registered users worldwide. The company's app success is measured by metrics such as monthly active users, net-proceeds, user satisfaction, and reviews on the App Store and Google Play. Runtastic's mobile devops team consists of 26 people split 50/50 between iOS and Android developers, with a total engineering team of 82 people. The company has been using Bitrise since 2021 and has seen significant improvements in productivity and developer experience after migrating from Jenkins. Mohga Gamea, Technical Product Manager at Runtastic, will be speaking at the Mobile DevOps Summit 2023 about their migration experience to Bitrise and sharing tips and trends on building mobile devops at scale, generating bitrise workflows and pipelines, and enhancing developer productivity with automation.

This year's Mobile DevOps Summit is focused on 'Accelerating your Mobile App Success', and Dave Siederer, Senior Specialist Solutions Architect for EC2 Mac at AWS, will be sharing his expertise on how customers leverage on-demand Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Mac instances for their Apple application development. He will cover the latest advancements in EC2 Mac and its integration with Bitrise, a popular DevOps platform, to streamline continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) build fleets and secure development pipelines. The session is scheduled for October 4th at 5pm GMT, and attendees can register now to hear Dave Siederer speak.

This year's Mobile DevOps Summit theme is 'Accelerating your Mobile App Success', and Cabify, a company founded in 2011 with over 1,000 direct employees, will share its expertise on proactive bug management at the summit. Gema Socorro Rodriguez, Senior Android Engineer at Cabify, will discuss leveraging app observability to minimize user impact when issues arise, drawing from her experience with Prometheus and Grafana tools. With two mobile apps, one for drivers and another for passengers, Cabify has achieved 6M+ downloads and averages 30,000 monthly downloads for the passenger app, scoring a 4.2 on both App Store and Google Play Store. Gema will also share tips and trends from her session, including the importance of observability, implementation using real-time backend tools, and future improvements. She has been working in mobile app development for over 14 years, specializing in Android, and has seen Bitrise improve her team's build times and reduce random errors. With a focus on creating an intuitive experience for all users, Gema will discuss the significance of transparency and how it can be achieved through proactive strategies like those she'll present at the summit.

Our latest update brings clarity and efficiency to iOS developers' testing process with enhanced test reporting features directly accessible on the Build Details page, featuring interactive HTML test results and support for Xcode test screenshots and videos.` `The new feature optimizes the development process for both iOS and Android app creators by instantly displaying failing test results in Pipelines builds, enabling quicker error identification and addressing specific pain points.` `Developers can now navigate to their latest Pipeline build's 'Tests' tab to find failing tests, making it easier to pinpoint and address issues, and creating a more intuitive development workflow.

As Apple prepares for its September event, Xcode 15 General Availability is approaching, bringing a stack transition from Edge to Stable, which may cause breaking changes for some workflows due to updates in preinstalled tools and dependencies. To minimize disruption, proactive testing using the Edge stacks, particularly with the latest stable Xcode ("Xcode 14.3 with Edge updates") and the Xcode 15 Beta, is essential. A detailed migration guide will be provided to assist users in adapting to the changes, including information on Ruby, Node.js, Go, Apple simulator runtimes, and dedicated support for any issues that may arise.

Skyscanner, a leading travel company, has a highly successful mobile app with over 2.2 million monthly downloads and a 4.7/5 rating on both the App Store and Google Play. The app's success is measured by revenue, with the goal of driving traffic and converting it into revenue. Skyscanner uses internal metrics such as user journey and experience to track its mobile app's performance. The company has a large engineering team, with over 700 people working in engineering and 40+ dedicated to mobile DevOps. Skyscanner's Mobile DevOps Summit 2023 session will discuss implementing effective Mobile DevEx at scale, with a focus on scaling engineering in the hybrid-remote world. The company has been using Bitrise for its mobile app development since early 2021, which has helped accelerate its app's success by providing a stable CI/CD platform and supporting engineers. Michael Tweed, Principal Software Engineer at Skyscanner, will be speaking at the summit and shares his insights on mobile DevEx, engineering culture, and scaling DevEx tooling across distributed teams.