So like probably more than a few people, we jumped in and bought two of the new Apple silicon M1 Mac Mini’s to replace a couple aging Intel-based build servers at work. Our old servers were running Jenkins with a pretty standard configuration to build and test our iOS apps. The initial transition was prettyContinue reading “Working Around Xcode and Continuous Integration Issues on Apple Silicon”
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Retrying Failed Tests With Xcode 13 and Continuous Integration
As developers we never want our tests to fail, but there are often real world cases, especially with UI and integration tests against actual API (as opposed to a stable mock API or static data), where tests can and will occasionally fail. For example, API’s may go down, dependent data may change, or the XcodeContinue reading “Retrying Failed Tests With Xcode 13 and Continuous Integration”
Manage Developer Disk Space Easily with macOS Big Sur
Prior to macOS 11 Big Sur, cleaning up development disk space by deleting old iOS or watchOS device support versions and Xcode caches was something of a pain, requiring command-line calls to directories scattered in a number of different places. For example to delete Xcode cache you might run something like this. You might alsoContinue reading “Manage Developer Disk Space Easily with macOS Big Sur”
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