CI Best Practices for iOS & macOS App Development
summary
Panelists compare concrete CI setups: Jenkins backbone, Mac Stadium-hosted Mac minis and Mac Pros, and Anka VM images that let Jenkins spawn ephemeral builders. Teams use golden images (cached Xcode, simulators, source) and VM fork/instant-clone to spin builders seconds, cutting builds from ~4h to 2h to ~30m (Civilization desktop: ~2–3h → 40m, iMac Pro ~10m). Tricks: disable Spotlight (+~15% speed), use ccache, Fastlane→TestFlight, and selective pull request testing to avoid unnecessary jobs; real-device testing remains hard to fully automate.
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chapters (5)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:34Speaker introductions
- 5:22Mac Stadium and infrastructure
- 5:53Setting the stage
- 6:06CI/CD strategies and Q&A
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