Company
Date Published
Author
Matt Kremer
Word count
733
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

Appflow's new Cloud command line interface (CLI) allows developers to integrate its mobile CI/CD capabilities into existing CI/CD platforms like Azure DevOps, Jenkins, and GitLab CI with ease, enhancing their app delivery processes. By leveraging Appflow's features such as Live Updates, Native Builds, and App Store Publishing, development teams can streamline the complex mobile app delivery process and focus on app-specific features instead. Despite the widespread use of general-purpose CI/CD tools, many are not optimized for mobile applications and require advanced DevOps expertise, leading to sporadic release cadences. Appflow simplifies this by handling the entire mobile app delivery process, enabling teams to automate app updates, build native binaries in the cloud, and directly publish to app stores, all while maintaining existing CI/CD infrastructures. This integration is designed to be straightforward and adheres to DevOps best practices, helping developers achieve continuous integration and delivery more effectively in the rapidly evolving developer market.