This is a talk sharing TripCase's (http://phonegap.com/app/tripcase/) experience with (and without) PhoneGap Build. We'll walk through our journey and discuss how it shaped expectations on how quickly we should be getting our code in the hands of fellow testers and stakeholders.

1. Automating Your Way
out of the Dark Ages
Our experience with
(and without)
PhoneGap Build @burin
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2. This Talk
our experience w/ PhoneGap Build
and how it spoiled us
about PhoneGap specifically
what we did when we couldn’t use
it anymore

3. Timeline
Building Manually w/ Xcode & Eclipse
Building/Distributing w/ PhoneGap Build
Manual Builds (again)
Distribution w/ TestFlight & HockeyApp
Automated Build & Distribution

4. The Redesign

5. From:
Native iOS
Native Android
Native BlackBerry
Native Windows Mobile
mobile web
touch web
Android touch

6. To:
HTML5!
!
mobile web, iOS, Android, BlackBerry*

7. creative commons licensed (BY-NC-SA) flickr photo by x-ray delta one:
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Building stuff.
Feeling productive.
HTML5 all the things.

8. Chrome = WebKit
Safari = WebKit
Android browser = WebKit
BlackBerry browser = WebKit
Test in Chrome, because
WebKit.

9. QA team:
“I wonder how it behaves on
Android 2.3 wrapped”

10. Test in Chrome, because
WebKit?
Nope. :(

11. iOS:
Safari. WebView. Chrome.
Android:
Browser. WebView. Chrome.
BlackBerry:
6.0? 7.0? 10?
Chrome Blink?

12. I’ll just Build
Manually with
Xcode & Eclipse

13. The Dark Age

14. git pull

15. compass compile

16. node r.js -o app.build.js

17. ⌘C ⌘P
Copy/Paste Files into www

18. Plug In Phone

21. Plug In Phone #2

24. Plug In Phone #3

27. The Renaissance

29. With PhoneGap Build:

30. git pull
./build.sh

33. Automate All the Things!

34. # on every commit
# 1) build app
# 2) zip it
# 3) upload via API

35. Went from building once a week
(maybe)
to
building multiple times a day

36. Timeline
Building Manually w/ Xcode & Eclipse
Building/Distributing w/ PhoneGap Build
Manual Builds (again)
Distribution w/ TestFlight & HockeyApp
Automated Build & Distribution

37. Outgrowth:
Manual Builds Again

38. Unsupported Plugins

39. Manually Building (again)

40. Manually Distributing (again)

41. The Dark Age 2.0

42. “Building”

43. git pull

44. ./build.sh

48. “Distributing”

49. Me: "Want to help? Install this app and email me your UDID"
Teammate: *"I emailed you my UDID the other day, when can I install the
app?"*
"Um.. let me check. I need to add it to the provisioning profile."
Add UDID to provisioning profile
git pull
Run javascript build script
Push a button
Forgot to get new provisioning profile into Xcode
Refresh profiles
Push a button
Send it out
"it wouldn't install, what's the deal?"*
"lemme try again"
restart xcode
push a button
"ok try now"

50. The Renaissance 2.0

51. TestFlight to the rescue! (for
iOS)

54. Hockey App to the rescue! (for
Android)

55. Automating the Build AND
Distribution

56. Goals
Push button “deploy”
Continuous Integration
Reduce TTHN (Time to HackerNews)

57. Xcode

58. Xcode Command Line Tools
xcrun
!
xcodebuild
!
agvtool
!

59. Shenzhen
Ruby gem that creates .ipa files
!
Distributes to TestFlight
!
Part of nomad (http://nomad-cli.com/)

60. gem install shenzhen

61. ipa build -s {{projectName}} -c Release

62. ipa distribute
——api_token {{apiToken}}
——team_token {{teamToken}}
——lists "Core" --notes {{notes}}
--notify --replace

63. Eclipse

64. ant release

65. mv bin/{{AppName}}.apk
~/Dropbox/Builds/{{appName}}.apk

66. More Automation

67. configure api endpoint
add build information
concatenate/minify
compile templates
compass compile
move files to xcode
move files to eclipse
Grunt Tasks for JS Code

68. configure xcode project bundle id to be branch name
configure xcode project app name to be branch name
configure xcode project build id to be commit revision
build xcode project
distribute app to test flight
build eclipse project
distribute to server for download
Grunt Tasks for Xcode/Eclipse

69. Cordova CLI does some of this
for you, too

70. cordova build ios
cordova prepare ios
cordova compile ios
cordova emulate ios
Cordova CLI

71. Resources
[PhoneGap](https://phonegap.com/)
[PhoneGap Build](https://build.phonegap.com/)
[TestFlight](https://testflightapp.com/)
[Hockey App](http://hockeyapp.net/)
[GruntJS](http://gruntjs.com/)
[shenzhen](https://github.com/mattt/shenzhen)
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