Most Android developers won't need to interact much with Gradle it will just sit there running scripts until changes need to be made to external dependencies, app properties or signing configuration.

On Android however, things are slightly different, with the undisputed king being Gradle. There are already a lot of build tools to improve the developer workflow on iOS, and a lot of this is down to XCode exposing functionality via the terminal. Included was a set of developer tools called fastlane, created through an open source project, which were already being used by thousands of development teams to automate both the building and the release of iPhone and Android apps.įor iOS, the development environment is XCode which manages everything from creating an iOS app to signing and deploying to the App Store or TestFlight. Towards the end of January, 2017, Google acquired the developer platform, Fabric, the idea being that the combined business would help mobile teams build better apps, better understand their users and ultimately grow their companies.

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