Apple Acquires Buddybuild To Ease iOS App Testing, Management

Even though the iOS app ecosystem is ane of the biggest in the world, Apple is ever looking to concenter newer developers to build apps for its platforms.

To brand this a reality, the Cupertino giant is making the evolution and testing of iOS apps easier with the acquisition of a Vancouver-based startup called Buddybuild. The financial details of this transaction have not been disclosed by either party.

As described on its website, Buddybuild is an app development platform that combines together 'continuous integration, continuous delivery, and an iterative feedback solution' all into a singular yet cohesive service. This means you get all development, as well as debugging tools, required to build, iterate or publish your apps in one service.

As for how the Buddybuild service works, information technology typically provides app evolution teams a streamlined workflow to rapidly design and publish all iOS apps through repository websites such as GitHub, BitBucket or GitLab. The developers can choose to instantly deploy or schedule their app releases, while also managing provisioning profiles and app signing quite handy for developers.

In their official blog mail, the Buddybuild team comments on the acquisition as under:

"We're excited to share that the Buddybuild team has joined the Xcode engineering group at Apple to build amazing programmer tools for the entire iOS customs."

Postal service acquisition, the whole Buddybuild team (close to 40 employees) volition bring together Apple, just won't move to Cupertino. They will keep to build upon the existing platform from Vancouver only have now announced that the service will remain bachelor to existing customers, who're all the same edifice iOS apps simply not for those who signed up to the free starter, every bit well as Android app development plans on 1st March 2018.

Buddybuild has also emphasised that new client sign-ups have been airtight, starting right away. And as stated above, this acquisition means the cease of Android app development on Buddybuild.

Buddybuild's tools are well-nigh likely to be merged with Apple tree'south Xcode development platform in the coming months.

And then, what are your views on Apple's latest acquisition? Will it actually be as useful for developers as it sounds? Permit us know your opinions in the comments down below.

Source: https://beebom.com/apple-acquires-buddybuild/

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