Continuous Delivery for Android

By @leenasn

Agenda● Why Continuous Delivery

● Continuous Delivery for Android Apps - Challenges

● Overview of the Tools

Building something nobody wants is the ultimate form of waste

~Eric RiesThe Lean Startup

Think about how long would it take you to deliver a change of one line of code within your application to production

~Mary and Tom PoppendieckLean Software Development, An Agile Toolkit

https://www.infoq.com/articles/standish-chaos-2015

Continuous Delivery

“Continuous Delivery is a software development discipline where

you build software in such a way that the software can be

released to production at any time.”

http://martinfowler.com/bliki/ContinuousDelivery.html

Continuous Integration

“Continuous integration (CI) is the practice, in software

engineering, of merging all developer working copies to a shared

mainline several times a day.”

Mainline Development

Feature Toggles

Automated Testing

Automated Deployment

Deployment Pipeline

CD vs CD

CD for Android

Challenges

Not much Control

The Next Web

Slow Unit tests

Solutions ???

https://twitter.com/mobileapptimize/status/713441244639281154

Playstore Alpha/Beta Testing

Testing Tools

Build Tools

Static Analysis Tools

Summary

Done = Released

Work in small batches

http://cnmnewz.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Golden-Gate-Bridge-with-Net-AP.jpg

Case Studies

http://mobiledeliverydays.org/program/

https://github.com/multunus/android-sample-app

References

1. http://martinfowler.com/articles/feature-toggles.html

2. http://www.multunus.com/blog/2016/03/merge-hells-feature-toggles-rescue/

3. http://www.slideshare.net/TimothyFitz/continuous-deployment-beyond-continuous-delivery

4. http://blog.crisp.se/2013/02/05/yassalsundman/continuous-delivery-vs-continuous-deployment

5. https://gradle.org/case-study-continuous-delivery-netflix/

6. http://mobiledeliverydays.org/program/

References

Leena S N@leenasn / leena.sn@multunus.com