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From YouTube: Incubation Engineering DevOps for Mobile - Weekly Demo September 3rd 2021 - Mobile Review Apps

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https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/incubation-engineering/devops-for-mobile-apps/readme/-/issues/16

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Hey everyone: this is the uh devops for mobile apps demo for september 3rd 2021. uh this week. We continue to dive into the mobile review. Apps and we've got a couple examples here um for ios and android and then I'll walk through the the templates and then this uh the cli tool that we're using to make this all work.

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So uh first example here is uh this: is a uh the android weather app that we've been testing with, and so we've got the mobile review app set up in this merge request, and it gives us this button here to view the app uh so when we click that it takes us over to appetize, and we can just kick the app off right there in the browser and it loads real quickly there. So um so that's working well. um We've also got an ios example here.

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This is a different app that I've been testing with before, but it's a little xkcd viewer so same thing pop that open and then kick off the app. You can see that this is a ios device and this loads after a second here.

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So there we go okay, so that uploaded. um So how do these work um so for for either of these uh we're using the ci template?

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So if we look at the the diff view on the merge request, we can see that we're, including this template here for the android mobile review, apps template- and that does this. um So this is uh cleaned up quite a bit from what I was working with last week and we're using this appetize upload command to kind of do all the work. So we streamlined this quite a bit uh turned up pretty nice, so we've got that and then essentially the same thing for ios. I broke these out as separate templates for now.

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Thinking that we may, um we may want to have like different functionality, but we'll see it. It could be similar enough that we don't need to change it.

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um So those are the two two templates that we have here um and then the thing that kind of makes that that does kind of heavy lifting is this um appetized cli gem, which is something that I put together and it's basically just a quick ruby gem that has a provides a cli interface for the upload and delete functions in the appetize api.

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So it's fairly straightforward.

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um Basically, you configure it with your token and then you can tell it to upload and then give it a path to a artifact and then like which platform you're working on either ios or android, and there's a couple examples down here um and then delete is literally just uh it's the app um and we give it the public key, which is the kind of a unique identifier that appetize gives to the app.

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So that kind of tie that all together to make that work um and uh so yeah, that's kind of the basics of that. And then I've got my sample projects list down here.

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um I had been testing with this hacker's ios app, but I ran into some sort of bug in the build step and I I didn't feel like spending a ton of time debugging, whatever the ios issue was so um found a different app to test with, and this one works pretty well, so um so we're using that for now, um but then the both of the the two android test, apps that I've been working with, are set up uh with review apps too, and those are working just fine.

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um So that's that's kind of where we're at um the next uh coming up. Next, um we're gonna be looking uh looking for folks to test out these templates. So um I've got this issue here, uh which is set up instructions. So if anyone wants to try this out, this is kind of a quick walk through on how to make this work.

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I've talked with a couple folks, customers and users that are interested in trying it out so um we've given them this as well, but take a look if you're interested in trying it out go through these instructions. And then let me know if you see any uh issues or if anything could be clear in the instructions or anything like that, but we'll uh we'll try to get some more uh some more users trying this out and get us some feedback on the design and everything.

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And then I've also created this issue here for what I'm calling ux considerations. um So this is uh there's a few checks that I've got in place right now for the the ci templates, and um this actually like confused me at one point when I was setting this up. So I want to dig into this a little bit more and see if there's um maybe some patterns that we're using in other templates to get lab or other ways.

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So we can make this a little bit easier to use or at least provide faster feedback when something is missing, like a environment variable or something like that.

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So I'm going to be working on that and then finally I'd like to get some ci templates into the gitlab product as well. So I'm going to be digging into that and there is an issue here. That is.

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Talking about how we're adding some instrumentation onto these templates too, so we can actually measure the usage of them within gitlab.com. So that's in progress. The pipeline authoring team is working on that, but I'm gonna follow along and make sure that we're set up to use that as soon as that's ready, so that is it for this week again provide any feedback in the issue linked in the video in the description of the video below otherwise I'll see you next time. Thanks.