Apple Simplifies iPhone App Development with Acquisition of Buddybuild

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Apple Inc. is on a constant endeavour to nurture its iPhone app development community by offering new tools and frameworks for simplifies development process. This time the company takes a major step in this direction. Apple acquires Vancouver-based Buddybuild Startup Company – the one that focuses on continuous integration and debugging tools for iOS apps.

Founders of Buddybuild - Christopher Stott, Dennis Pilarinos and Johnny Shi officially announced this acquisition by stating “The buddybuild team is now part of Apple!” in its blog section. This comes as good news to iPhone app development company as well as entire iOS app developers community - let’s know how it will matter them:

Buddybuild’s Contribution to iOS App Development

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Buddybuild helps in building software that could be of effective use for developers to build apps or software for iPhone or other iOS based devices. This Buddybuild software is the only mobile continuous integration and delivery platform that sets up in just few minutes and enables developers to start building and testing their apps in no time.

This startup binds together integration, delivery and an iterative feedback solution into a single, seamless platform. With such ability, iPhone app development companies need not involve in disparate systems to accomplish app development needs.

Apple’s Xcode Engineering Group 

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“We're excited to share that the buddybuild team has joined the Xcode engineering group at Apple to build amazing developer tools for the entire iOS community.”
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Buddybuild team is supposed to join Xcode engineering team of Apple Inc. With this expansion, Apple is looking forward to simplify or ease the process of development and deployment to App Store. Developers can pace up the shipment of iOS apps by integration with services like GitHub, BitBucket and GitLab.

Following pointers give a zest of contribution of Buddybuild software in entire development lifecycle:

• "Git push" creates a secure build environment
• Triggers a build of an iOS app
• Runs unit or UI tests 
• Prepares app for beat test
• Deploys to Apple's TestFlight

What does Apple Inc. Look Forward to with this Acquisition?

Apple plans to make iOS app development more simple, easy and accessible to everyone. Its acquisition of Buddybuild comes in the same lines of creating and iterating iOS apps in efficient manner. Through this mobile iteration platform that is completely focused on continuous integration and debugging tools is aimed to give iOS app development team a simple workflow for iterating and pushing apps out into the world through GitLab, GitHub or BitBucket.

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The Buddybuild system is supposed to fit into Apple’s existing set of tools. In addition to that, the system will allow for integration of new methods for testing, debugging and deploying iOS apps through a systematic channel. Apple plans to improvise app development and deployment process to make available useful apps to iOS users. It would be exciting to know how Google copes up with this rapid pace of development and fast inflow of apps into Apple App Store after this acquisition.

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