Tools and processes used at eXo to develop our mobile applications (iOS & Android) including continuous integration and deployment. Tips and tricks to setup all the infrastructure involved in them.

1. Mobile Development
Tools and Practices
Arnaud Héritier
eXo Platform
@aheritier
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2. Our Motivation
• Observations
• eXo Mobile division had many difficulties to
stabilize applications (build failures,
dependencies to the development
environment ...),
• Functional and technical feedbacks were very
limited because the deployment/update
process was complex for testers / early
adopters.
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3. Our Motivation
• Prescription
• Continuous build and deployment of mobile
applications (iOS, Android)
• to speedup the feedback loop
• to increase the number of testers / early
adopters
• to increase the quality and the stability of
these applications.
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4. Our Motivation
• CI wasn't easy to setup the first time,
especially for iOS. The experience is worth
being shared.
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5. Webinar Schedule
• The development environment
• Setup the continuous integration
• Setup the continuous deployment
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6. Environment overview
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7. The Development
Environment for iOS
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8. iOS Development
Toolbox
• Xcode
• http://developer.apple.com/xcode/
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9. Setup a Development
Environment for iOS
• Apple documentation
• http://goo.gl/Ge13t
• The most important part is to register your
Apple developer account and to correctly
set your code signing identity
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10. Certificates
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11. Provisioning
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12. Setup a
Development
Environment for
iOS
The developer can spend the
major part of the day in Xcode
and the emulator as long as the
code is regularly committed in
the SCM
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13. The Development
Environment for
Android
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14. Android Development
Toolbox
• Java JDK
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html
• Android SDK
• http://developer.android.com/sdk
• Eclipse 3.7 IDE for Java Developers
• http://eclipse.org
• Apache Maven
• http://maven.apache.org/
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15. Setup a Development
Environment for Android
• Installation
• Java JDK
• Android SDK
• Don’t forget to set the ANDROID_HOME environment variable
• Maven 3.0.3 min
• Required by the 3.0 version of the android plugin
• Eclipse
• Use Java Developers edition with its Maven integration (m2e)
• Don’t forget to configure your Maven and ADT paths in eclipse
settings.
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16. Maven
installation path
to use in eclipse
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17. ADK
installation path
to use in eclipse
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18. Maven POM for an
Android Project
• Packaging = apk
• Uses the plugin
com.jayway.maven.plugins.android.generatio
n2:android-maven-plugin
• version 3.0.0 min
• manifest-update goal bound to the phase
process-resources
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19. Setup a Development
Environment for Android
• Just import your Maven/APK project in eclipse with m2e.
• M2e and its market place will automatically install and
configure the Android extension in eclipse
• You’ll be able to manage your project dependencies with
Apache Maven
• You don’t have to explicitly use Maven in your development
process. M2e does the necessary to hide it.
• Manage your Android project with Apache Maven
• http://www.sonatype.com/books/mvnref-book/reference/
android-dev.html
• http://code.google.com/p/maven-android-plugin/
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20. Maven POM for
an android
project
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21. Setup a
Development
Environment for
Android
The developer can spend the
major part of the day in Eclipse
and the emulator as long as the
code is regularly committed in
the SCM
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22. Continuous Integration
Environment
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23. Continuous Integration
Toolbox
• Jenkins
• http://jenkins-ci.org/
• Java JDK
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html
• Android SDK
• http://developer.android.com/sdk
• Apache Maven
• http://maven.apache.org/
• Xcode
• http://developer.apple.com/xcode/
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24. Continuous Integration
for iOS
• Jenkins with the Xcode plugin
• https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/
JENKINS/Xcode+Plugin
• Requires a MacOS platform to build (using
a Jenkins agent if necessary)
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25. Continuous Integration
for iOS
• Configure the environment where build will be run
as a development environment (Xcode +
certificates)
• Connect your Jenkins Server to an iOS agent :
• Use a dedicated user account on the agent host,
• Allow Remote Login (Sharing preferences) on the
agent to connect to it using SSH,
• Configure an SSH key on the Server that you will
authorize on the agent (~/.ssh/authorized_keys)
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26. Dedicated account for Jenkins agent
on Macos X host
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27. Activate Remote Login (aka SSH)
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28. Continuous Integration
for iOS
• Create a freestyle job in
jenkins with an Xcode
Build Step
• Ask to build the IPA
• Configure it to unlock
the login keychain
• Use build variables to
generate a unique
technical version
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29. Continuous Integration
for iOS
• “User interaction
is not allowed”
error returned while
signing your binary ?
• Launch one time
manually the build on
the agent to validate
permanently the
access to the keychain
for the process
“codesign”
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30. Continuous Integration
for Android
• Install an Android SDK on all agents where the
android job can be launched
• Configure in Jenkins
• JDK 1.6+
• Apache Maven 3.0.3+
• ANDROID_HOME environment variable or define
the property android.sdk.path in a profile
activated from maven settings.xml
configuration file.
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31. Continuous Integration
for Android
• Create a Maven Job
• Use the property
“android.manifest.versionCode”
to inject a unique version number in the
application Manifest
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32. Continuous
Deployment
Environment
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33. Continuous
Deployment Toolbox
• Jenkins
• http://jenkins-ci.org/
• Appaloosa Store
• http://appaloosa-store.com
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34. Private Store
• Appaloosa allow you to manage a private
store for Android or iOS devices
• Even if our applications are deployed in
public app-stores after the release we
rely on a private app-store to easily
deploy tests versions to our QA or our
early adopters.
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35. Continuous Deployment
with Appaloosa
• Install the appaloosa plugin in Jenkins
• https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Appaloosa
+Plugin
• Get the organization token in the administration panel of your
appaloosa store
• Create a private store for each system : One for iOS and one
for Android
• Configure in each job a post build task to deploy binaries
• **/*.ipa for the iOS build
• **/target/*(-aligned).apk for the android build
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36. Continuous Deployment
with Appaloosa
• Check your emails and
install the Appaloosa
Store App or open the
website on your mobile.
• Both of them will warn
you about the availability
of a new version of your
application.
• Just install/update it
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37. FULL SCENARIO
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38. FULL SCENARIO
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39. iOS development
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40. Jenkins plugins
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41. Xcode build configuration in Jenkins
for iOS jobs
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42. Post-build configuration for iOS Jobs
in Jenkins
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43. Let’s launch the iOS jobbuild
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44. iOS build output
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45. iOS post-build output
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46. iOS job page
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47. We receive a
notification
from Appaloosa
(using the private store
application)
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48. Notification sticker
on our Appaloosa
store app
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49. In the application
detail screen we
can see the update
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50. Application
installation or
update
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51. Application
installation or
update
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52. It’s ready !
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53. Enjoy
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54. Q/A ?
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