We are building our mobile app with Flutter, which has made it easy for us to ship to both iOS and Android with feature parity across both platforms. We launched on both platforms the first day we released our app, and every 2 weeks since then we’ve pushed an update to both platforms simultaneously. We are using Bitrise to run our CI tasks, which has been effective and reliable.

Once we got set up with Bitrise, we started to use it to generate scheduled nightly builds so we could test our work for the day on our mobile devices. But, the process of downloading a new build every night was cumbersome and many of our internal testers ended up not updating regularly enough. We needed a system that made it easy for us to update our test build on a nearly daily basis. When we got an email from Bitrise telling us about the new Applivery integration, we started looking into it immediately!

We use Applivery to ship “nightly” builds to our internal mobile team. This includes the software engineers on the team, but it also includes the product managers, product designers, and some key managers and executives.

Applivery makes it very easy to onboard new team members and keeps everyone up-to-date. Now, when we merge a new feature into the project, we can tell our designers that it will be ready for them to test out when the daily build is pushed to Applivery. This keeps our review cycles short and helps keep everyone in the loop.

We use Applivery in combination with Bitrise. Bitrise builds our app, and sends the builds to Applivery! We also use Sentry to collect errors in the wild. Any build will report errors to Sentry.

Distributing builds internally was possible, but it was difficult. There was no easy way to get people to update their build regularly. Applivery has made this very simple, and now the whole team is consistently up-to-date with the latest build.