How can you use devops to streamline mobile app development?

In my experience, I think DevOps can greatly help to rollout features quickly without interrupting current operation. It also supports team collaboration breaking down silos and enhancing effective communication. When DevOps is properly planned, automation is sacrosanct hence making the lives of developers easier....

DevOps can help you significantly reduce the cost of e2e, shorten e2e testing duration and make e2e easily repeatable by automating e2e test cycles using test automation and related provisioning tools.

DevOps brings automation, monitoring, and collaboration to mobile app delivery, accelerating development cycles. Test automation across devices catches regressions faster. CI/CD pipelines enable one-click builds, testing, and releases. Infrastructure as code provisions servers without manual errors. Monitoring provides crash and performance visibility. Short feedback loops surface issues sooner when cheaper to fix. Frequent incremental updates keep pace with mobile OS changes. Tight collaboration between developers, testers and ops powers rapid experimentation. By reducing bottlenecks, manual work and release cycles, DevOps allows faster mobile app development with higher quality and user satisfaction, speeding time-to-market.

In my own experience, Bitrise is a go to for DevOps and CI/CD when talking about mobile apps. A CI/CD pipeline to do any checks that you want before actually sending it to Bitrise (like approval of the pipeline, security checks, unit tests and/or sonar tests on your app) and then a Bitrise workflow is everything you need to save your company money and time.

DevOps streamlines mobile app development by integrating development and operations teams, automating processes, and emphasizing continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD). This approach ensures faster, more reliable app releases, improved collaboration, and quicker issue resolution, resulting in efficient development cycles and better app quality.

Several DevOps tools can enhance mobile app development: Jenkins: For automated build and deployment. Bitrise: A CI/CD platform specifically designed for mobile apps. Fastlane: Automates iOS and Android app deployment tasks. Docker: Containerization tool for consistent app environments. Kubernetes: Manages containerized app deployments. Git and GitHub/GitLab: Version control and collaboration platforms. TestFlight and Firebase Test Lab: Testing and distribution tools. Sentry and Crashlytics: For monitoring app performance and detecting crashes. Ansible: For configuration management and automation.

Some ways to get started: As stated identify goals and milestones. Establish and agree to a lapse of time for a delivery cycle. This can be as short as a few hours, of a few days. Smaller has a tendency to be better, but not at cost of quality. If making changes to the delivery cycle be sure to know what theses changes are are how they are meant to affect output. Will it improve quality? Speed? In any case be sure to measure what exactly it changed to see if these initiatives are the right way to go. If they were, try to replicate the ideas and recipes that were at the inception of these changes. Share these improvements and seek feedback and new ideas. The rest, will come naturally to technology buffs. Tooling, CI/CD, IAC to name a few.