Android CI Using Buildkite
- 1. CONFIDENTIAL | 1 FeaturedProject: Miramar Federal Office Building, U.S.A. | US $160M Value Connecting Teams to Build the World Android CI using Buildkite Patrick Yin 02 Mar 2018
- 2. CONFIDENTIAL | 2 Background •We use Buddybuild CI for our new iOS and Android App from start. • Apple acquired Buddybuild this year, team joined Xcode and dropped Android support from 1st Mar 2018.
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- 4. CONFIDENTIAL | 4 Buildkite+ Fastlane We decided to use • Buildkite for continuous integration • Fastlane for the delivery
- 5. CONFIDENTIAL | 5 Agents •The BFF CI is running on Buildkite and also integrated with AWS Agents, so we just use the existing AWS Elastic CI stack.
- 6. CONFIDENTIAL | 6 Container •The Android SDK and JDK is in the Docker image • Fastlane needs ruby environment, C/C++ development environment • Pass Buildkite build number into the container
- 7. CONFIDENTIAL | 7 Process Buildkite Compose Docker imageon the agent Build the app in Docker container fastlane Crashlytics Beta / Google Play
- 8. CONFIDENTIAL | 8 Buildnumber • The App’s version code and version name based on Buildkite’s build number. The version code is a number and the version name is a string, e.g. “1.0.0 (213)” • Android system and Google Play store check the app version with version code. • Seed the Buildkite’s build number to a number greater than the build number of the last build in Buddybuild