February ended with a massive winter snowing coming a tiny bit late... So it was nice to do great things in the warm office. Just kidding. Wasn't warm. 🤣 Anyhow, see all that was important on our end in February.
News & Stories
🤖 Unofficial Bitrise clients for Android - We got to try two unofficial Bitrise clients and we think you should know about them too. 😉
🗨 Smarter Slack step & Oh, so stylish Slack messages - We updated our Slack step to make notifications more informative and smart. And then we updated it again based on your feedback.
👾 How bots saved my iOS life - A brief history of mobile in an automation world. Guest post by Jessy Hanzo, explaining how automation changed his working days.
🚶Step source env var and update command in CLI - If you use our CLI, you need to know about these two new features rolled out in this month's update.
📰 New step: GitLab status - You requested it, we've delivered: GitLab users rejoice, this status step is for you!
Guides
🤐 Protect your secrets - Keep your secret env vars secret for all eternity and your files belonging to certain apps protected against downloading.
🐛 How to debug your build locally? - Issue also known as “It works on my Mac/PC but not on bitrise.io”. Be like Sherlock and investigate using Bitrise CTO Viktor Benei's guide. 🕵
👻 From zero to testing an Android app on Bitrise (Part 1 of 2) - Part one of a step by step tutorial from adding a project to Android Studio, through Unit tests and UI tests to storing the code in the cloud. Part 2 coming up soon!
