If you are using GitHub Container Registry and receive unauthorized error messages from docker-compose or docker pull, your personal access token for GitHub’s container registry is either not properly configured or the token has expired. This post will walk you through the steps to resolve this error.
GitHub Actions are a great way to incorporate DevOps and DevSecOps into mobile development. This post documents the steps to build a React Native iOS app with GitHub Actions (without using any 3rd party actions). Many of the steps will be the same as the previous post on “How to build an iOS app with GitHub Actions [2023]” so definitely check that out for a more complete explanation of the various steps below.
Building on my previous “How to build an iOS app archive via command line” post, let’s now automate the process using GitHub Actions! There are a number of mobile CI/CD capabilities out there such as BitRise, CodeMagic, Jenkins, CircleCI and even Xcode Cloud but there are a lot of advantages to handling CI/CD directly in GitHub including (to name a few):
Already has access to source code Native developer experience Managing your CI/CD configuration in a source controlled yaml file GitHub Marketplace is open and has a massive number of integrations and helpful actions When I first embarked on this technical how to, I have to admit it was pretty overwhelming.
In my previous post, I detailed “How to export an Ad Hoc iOS ipa using Xcode” however there are advantages to exporting an iOS app archive using the command line. Top of mind reasons include:
faster than using Xcode with a mouse can automate the build process (e.g. with GitHub Actions) Make sure you followed along in the previous post so all prerequisites are met or have an active iOS app that you’ve successfully built and exported at least once.
In this post, I’m going to automate the build process (see my previous post) for a React Native Android app with GitHub Actions. This obviously ties into the the DevOps tidal wave but in a way that’s very developer friendly. Developers spend significant time in GitHub and have a great developer experience (DX). Instead of popping out to external systems, you can build, test and deploy you app within GitHub and also leverage the extensive, open GitHub Marketplace to reuse workflows and integration into other systems.