Daily Archives: February 18, 2018

Alpha vs Beta Apps and Nightly vs Production Builds

App DevBy Sherief Abul-Ezz February 18, 2018

What is the difference between alpha vs beta apps, and nightly vs production builds? With so many names and varying definitions across industries, identifying the purpose and process of mobile app builds can get confusing. Here, we will discuss what a build is and examine alpha, beta, nightly, and production builds: their position in the…

Top Mobile Continuous Integration (CI/CD) Tools

App DevBy Hady ElHady February 18, 2018

Continuous integration, continuous delivery (CI/CD), and continuous deployment have drastically changed the mobile software development cycle, especially with the different continuous integration tools developers now use to ship their apps. As software development cycles are becoming faster, time to deploy apps and delivery cycles are becoming shorter and shorter. Instead of companies shipping new app…