ios app continuous deployment strategy

Continuous Deployment for iOS Game Development

Naresh Jain naresh@agilefaqs.com

@nashjain http://nareshjain.com

45 mins Structure• 5 Mins - Demo of the Game

• 10 Mins - Continuous Deployment (Biz Case)

• 3 Mins - Challenges with CD for iPad apps

• 5 Mins - Our Approach

• 10 Mins - Our Architecture

• 5 Mins - Recap

• 7 Mins - Q & A

EdventureLabs Speedmath Demo

Commercial Break!

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Continuous Deployment

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CD is quite natural for companies delivering

content via Web

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freesetglobal.com

Updates View

DB

StaticFiles

Stage 1

Structural

Changes

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Upda

tes View

DB

StaticFiles

Stage 2

dev.freesetglobal.com

DB

StaticFiles

Single-Click

Deploy

Sync

Freeset - In Business for Freedom

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BetterConf (AgileIndia) Submission System and

Online Registration System

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Can we embrace CD for eLearning?

Rich Multi-Media ContentVideo, Screencasts, Quizzes, Images, Personas, etc.

Programming ExercisesJava, C#, C++, C & Python

Mac OS, Windows, Linux, Solaris

Different IDE Plugins

Server side code analysis (Java, C#, C++, C & Python)

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This is what we did...

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Deploy build to inactive production servers

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Delivery tests verify inactive release

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Inactive joins the cluster

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Reverse proxy swaps inactive with active

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iOS App CD Challenges

• Apple takes any where between 3 Days to 1 Week to push a new update to the app store

• Pretty complicated and cumbersome signing and packing process

• Need to deploy to actual iOS devices to test minor changes

How did we solve this problems?

• We decided to go down the HTML5 Route

• Changes/Updates needed to be made at 3 levels:

• Content Changes & Logic Changes

• Look and Feel Changes

• Infrastructure Changes

Client Side Architecture

JSNative

Recap

• Split the changes into different layers

• Maximise the use of HTML5 Tech stack

• Automate the heck out of things

Thank You!Questions?

Naresh Jain naresh@agilefaqs.com

@nashjain http://nareshjain.com