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🎉 2 Years of public speaking 🎉
This week I had the chance to give the closing talk at the Do iOS Conference in Amsterdam and I wanted to take this opportunity to thank the organisers for putting on yet another wonderful edition of the conference.
Do iOS will always hold a very special place in my heart as it was at this same conference two years ago that I gave my first ever public talk and discovered my passion for public speaking.
Since then, I have given more than 10 talks at conferences all over the world, I have grown a lot as a speaker and I have met a lot of wonderful people in the process. In fact, it was at that same edition of Do iOS two years ago that I met my good friend and business partner Hidde, who I build the NowPlaying and Helm apps with.
Stepping out of my comfort zone and applying to speak at conferences has had an incredible impact on my career, has helped me build a network of like-minded developers that I now collaborate with and has allowed me to meet people that I have always looked up to during my career.
If you’re thinking of applying to a conference but you are not quite sure wheter to do so, let me take take this opportunity and encourage you to do so!
Before I applied for my first conference, I doubted myself a lot, I always told myself ‘I don’t have enough experience’, ‘I am not as good as the other speakrs’ and ‘No one will find my topics interesting’. I couldn’t have been more wrong, everyone in the community has their own story to tell or their own spin on a topic to share, regardless of their experience or background.
So if you want to apply to speak at a conference, leave all those doubts behind and just apply. I would also love to volunteer myself to help anyone who is seeking feedback on their topics or call for papers.
P.S.: The slides for my talk at this year’s Do iOS are now available!
CI/CD providers latest software versions
Latest available Xcode and macOS versions on popular mobile CI/CD providers.
16.2 (16C5032a)
15.1 (24B2083)
16.2 (16C5032a)
15.2 (24C101)
16.2 RC (16C5031c)
15.1 (24B2083)
16.2 RC (16C5031c)
15.1.1 (24B91)
16.2 Beta (16B5100e)
14.6
16.2 (16C5032a)
14.6.1 (23G93)
15.4 (15F31d)
14.6.1 (23G93)
16.0 (16A242d)
14.5 (23F79)
🐙 Automating repository tasks with the GitHub CLI from GitHub Actions Workflows
This week I built an automation for Antoine van der Lee’s appstoreconnect-swift-sdk library to periodically check for new versions of the App Store Connect OpenAPI spec and update the SDK’s code when a newer spec is available.
The automation leverages the power of the GitHub CLI to make tasks such as creating a Pull Request with all the new code as simple as possible. If you’d like to learn how to automate GitHub tasks using GitHub Actions and the GitHub CLI, check out my latest article.
⏭️ Bumping a Swift Package’s version using Fastlane
This is a very special article for me to feature in the newsletter, not only because the topic is interesting and it is written very well, but because the author is my good friend Noam Efergan.
Noam announced a couple of days ago that he was starting a blog and, as soon as he shared the first articles, I knew I wanted to feature one of them in this issue. The blog’s content will revolve mainly around CI/CD and mobile automation, so make sure you follow him on social media and never miss an article!
In this article, Noam talks about how you can build a small automation using fastlane to easily bump the version of a Swift Package from the command-line.
✍️ Step-by-step guide to automating app code signing using fastlane match
Keeping your provisioning profiles and signing certificates in sync across your team is one of those processes that truly benefits from automation.
In this article, I show you how you can use fastlane match to build an automation that generates and syncs a single signing identity for your whole team.
⎈ Nominate your app for App Store featuring!
On the 12th of November, Apple announced a new App Store Connect feature that allows developers to share their app to be considered for featuring in the App Store called nominations.
When we heard about this annoucement, and despite the fact that the App Store Connect API has no endpoint for nominations yet, we quickly started working on a new Helm feature that simplifies the process of nominating your apps. We are very happy to announce that the new feature is available from version 1.4 of Helm, so make sure you download the app and start sharing your nominations with the App Store team in the easiest way possible.
🚨 GitHub Actions list of upcoming breaking changes
Earlier this month, GitHub announced a number of breaking changes coming to GitHub Actions.
Among these breaking changes, there are a few that are particularly important to any Apple app developers using GitHub’s CI/CD service:
- Version 3 of the artifcats action will stop working soon.
- Changes to workflow validation for pull requests from forked repositories.
- New webhook rate limits.
If any of these changes look particularly important to you, make sure you read the announcement to get thefull context.
📦 Bitrise Release Management is now CI agnostic!
Bitrise built their own Release Management platform back in 2022 and, since its introduction, it was tightly coupled to Bitrise’s CI/CD service as no other alternatives were available.
That all changed earlier this month, when Bitrise announced that their Release Management feature is now CI agnostic and can work with any CI tool.