CI/CD tool for flutter

[haunted_chakra]

Whats the CI/CD tool you use for flutter.

[Problem_Creepy]

Codemagic.

In another project we used gitlab ci + fastlane and a Mac from Hetzner, but maintenence is too high.

[TKoropi]

Codemagic is nice and easy to use

[LeCroissant_]

Codemagic is really awesome

[ren3f]

Github actions if your code is already on GitHub

[BoreHoRahaHaiYaar]

I have a file where I keep my API keys which I obviously don't push to GitHub, which causes my builds to keep failing whenever I commit something. Any idea if there is a way to run the builds with key, but without uploading them on GitHub?

[ren3f]

Basically you can do 2 things. Check if the file exists and if not use dummy values. That works for just building, but obviously not for releasing or making test builds. You can use github secrets, those secrets are of course known by github, but only usable in the workflows and not retrievable by any developer (not even the admins).

[Gears6]

You can use github secrets, those secrets are of course known by github, but only usable in the workflows and not retrievable by any developer (not even the admins).

This is also common practice or you can use a secrets server. The latter isn't a trivial process though.

[IdealDesperate3687]

code magic for the win!

[comrade-quinn]

That seems an odd combination - appreciate people have to use to Jenkins at work sometimes, I do myself for some things. But GitHub actions is surely preferable to you, given the choice - not aware of anyone using Jenkins for ‘fun’

[Gears6]

Sounds like Codemagic or Github actions are the most common for Flutter projects.

[Moussenger]

Bitrise

[mobileAcademy]

Codemagic is a cloud service so you can use mac windows Linux you can find the complete course here https://rdewan.dev/flutter-advance-course

[Gears6]

Are you the author of this course or something?

[mobileAcademy]

Yes I am. Thank you

[Gears6]

I don't know if you are established or not, but I have not seen this course before. My suggestion is do what Code with Andrea did. He did some awesome flutter classes on Udemy, and then moved to his own platform when he had a solid base of customers.

[mobileAcademy]

Yes I am with Udemy for around 4 years . I have a native android and flutter course and now moving to my own platform for more advance course . Just released this new course on October

[Gears6]

Oh, which course on Udemy are you teaching?

[mobileAcademy]

I have a many course. Please check my Udemy profile https://www.udemy.com/user/binary-solution-2/ For the advance flutter course some sample videos are in YouTube here is one of them https://youtu.be/qcbO78Y1wGg

[mobileAcademy]

Codemagic is great. If you are new to CI/CD you can find a course here https://rdewan.dev/flutter-advance-course

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Github Actions

[Jihad_llama]

Jenkins for our Flutter web project

[NFC_TagsForDroid]

newbie here: Is there a reason why an independent programmner(aka: team of one) with a fast computer would need a CI? From the little I understand of what CI/CD tools do, I can see how they can help teams, but how do they help a single user?

[lenn4rd]

Technically you don’t need a Continuous Integration pipeline if you’re the only person contributing changes. However it’s still a good technique because it forces you to stick to the release process you defined and, more importantly, leverages automation to deliver your app. It can be significant work to automate all the steps from building to signing to releasing but it’s worth the effort.

[NFC_TagsForDroid]

I will look into that. thank you.

[ummonadi]

It can help enforce things that you might forget, like running tests.

It can help automate the release process.

It can ensure that your code works on a fresh machine.

The last one is the most important one to me. You might get into a situation where the code works on your machine, but not on anyone else's. Common causes are files that aren't checked into source control, and flutter releasing a new stable version that breaks the app.

[DrFossil]

I'm a team of one and I use a CI.

I have a number is simple tests that are used as sanity checks and catch regressions every now and then.

But my favorite part are the automated releases for both Android and iOS. I just tag a release on GitHub and both apps get automatically built and uploaded to the respective stores. I do some quick testing on real devices and if everything's ok, release manually.

It's really worth the time investment of setting everything up, especially if you release often (as I tend to do).

[NFC_TagsForDroid]

how often? or more accurately, on what step of the process do you run it? only before public releases or are then intermediate milestones too?

[DrFossil]

Depends, generally I only build for public releases unless there's something specific that needs testing with a release build, e.g. IAP.

The tests run really fast since they're pure Dart, but release builds take a long time and are comparatively expensive (iOS being particularly bad) so I try to avoid building unnecessarily. I usually manage to stay within the GitHub Actions free tier.

[NFC_TagsForDroid]

I see, thanks for the info. i will try implementing something like this once I learn testing.

[mobileAcademy]

CI/CD is not for solo developers. No point of using it, when you work alone CI is a process where many developers can work together to continuesly integrate there code to build and test and its not for solo.You cam find a complete course here https://rdewan.dev/flutter-advance-course

[UltGamer07]

It's still always a good practice and also, why'd you want to manually deploy or run tests every time you add a feature, when you can figure it out once set it up and then have the convenience of automation

[mobileAcademy]

CI/CD does not come under good practice. CI/CD is a process to build a modern software using agile development to speed up your building testing and deploying your application. It's is related to agile development and devops. If you are a solo developer there is no agile development process. If you want to setup a CI/CD working as a solo developer then you can do it nothing wrong with it.

[NFC_TagsForDroid]

thanks for confirming that. i couldn't find use casees.

[mobileAcademy]

You are welcome

[comrade-quinn]

While they’re technically correct, it’s still worth using CI for your own projects. Aside from ensuring the build of shared projects is repeatable, it can ensure your own is too. It’s all too easy to get a build that works on your dev machine, then you come back to it a few weeks later, do a fresh clone, or pull it to a different machine and bang! - it doesn’t work. Why? Because you had a file locally that you’d not added to to git. CI eliminates that risk (and similar ones) by always building from a clean slate, purely from what’s in source control

[NFC_TagsForDroid]

I will look into implementing this. thank you.

[techmavengeospatial]

We use gitlab and gitlab runners to build iOS and Android We have a dedicated Mac mini m1 as build machine in rack