It requires an enormous amount of tools and knowledge for most teams to manage their mobile releases. Pol Piella has first hand experience with this challenge. Read his thoughts on what to do when knowledge and tooling is way too distributed. runway.team/blog/your-mobi…

We’ve made some big updates to our brand style this year. And just last week we soft launched a redesigned version of our home page. Why? Because we always want to make sure the quality of our brand is equal to the quality of our product. Check it out! runway.team

At Chain React right now? So are we! Visit our booth to learn about our newest features, pick up one of our signature, miniature LEGO planes, enter to win a huge LEGO space shuttle with bonus Hubble Telescope, and meet our Release Pilot, Logan.

Another great Chain React is in the books! Thanks to everyone who came to our After (After) Party and filled Ground Kontrol to capacity, to all the folks who entered our space shuttle raffle, and to the organizers of the conference for putting on such a wonderful event.

What’s the status of the release? …how about now? Okay, how about now? Did that one engineer merge their PR? Is the feature live? Did QA find any problems with the build? What if you didn’t have to answer all the same release questions again and again? runway.team/blog/do-you-kn…

Read all about how @Squarespace’s Unfold team made their mobile releases boring: learn what these non-eventful releases are like and how they came about, dig into how eventful they used to be, and hear why having uneventful releases is a superpower. engineering.squarespace.com/blog/2024/unfo…

ICYMI, in last week's edition of the Flight Deck we looked at: - The subtle art of making releases boring - On-device translations with the Swift Translations API - How knowledge and tooling are way too distributed - And more! Read it here: runway.team/flight-deck/12

Runway is hosting a happy hour at The Spaniard in NYC on August 22nd for all our mobile friends in the area! RSVP to join us for free snacks, drinks, and good mobile company. pp.events/ajq2WJMG

We had a great time in SF yesterday (as always) sponsoring the monthly SF Swift Language User Group meetup! Thanks to all the folks who came out, especially the speakers and organizers. Special thanks to Lyft for hosting the meetup at their beautiful HQ for the second time this year.

In Copenhagen? Statistically, this is unlikely. Less than 1% of our followers are in Denmark. But should you be one of them we’d love for you to join us for drinks, snacks, and good mobile company at our happy hour with Copenhagen Cocoa this Thursday. meetup.com/copenhagencoco…

Manually uploading screenshots and other assets to App Store Connect can be tedious, especially if you regularly change them between versions or have many localizations to support. Pol Piella shows how to use the ASC API to automate these uploads. runway.team/blog/how-to-up…

Back in May, the average time an iOS app spent waiting for review was ~5h 30m. How do things look now? ⏰ Waiting: 9h 18m 🔎 In review: 1h 52m That's a much longer wait. What about TestFlight beta review times? Even longer. Get the details: runway.team/appreviewtimes

Runway’s happy hour at Saint Bar in NYC is tonight. RSVP to join us for free snacks, drinks, and good mobile company. Will we be giving away some of our signature, mini lego planes and control towers to attendees? Only one way to find out. pp.events/ajq2WJMG

Despite what you may have heard from some very enthusiastic users of X (the Everything App, where we are all very excited to soon do our banking), AI will never build your app and your release process will never be fully automated away. Why not? runway.team/blog/ai-will-n…

We had a great time at two Runway happy hours this month! Thanks to everyone who hung out with us in Copenhagen and NYC! There's more to come in Sept. Find us at: - NSSpain XII in Logroño on Sept 18 and 19 - droidcon NYC on Sept 19 and 20 - Swift Connection 🇫🇷 in Paris on Sept 23 and 24

No matter how well you prepare, how thoroughly you test, and how carefully you roll out, there will come a day — perhaps an otherwise beautiful Sat afternoon — when your on-call engineer will get paged that your app is crashing for 20% of users. Now what? runway.team/blog/what-shou…

ICYMI: In our last edition of The Flight Deck, we covered how engineers write code and engineers make mistakes, a meme that gives Swift devs imposter syndrome, what to do when something goes wrong with your app (besides panic), and more. Read it here: runway.team/flight-deck/13

Check out this week's hotfix TTR leaderboard. Among the fastest on both Android and iOS: 🏅Mighty Doom (Bethesda Game Studios)- 45m 🏅Business Insider - 3h 36m 🏅@Pura - 5h 46m 🏅Spin - 6h 49m See who else made the list: runway.team/app-hotfix-lea…

After taking a short break from conferences in August, we're back for Sep! Find us at: - NSSpain XII Sep 18 to 19 - droidcon NYC Sep 19 to 20 - Swift Connection 🇫🇷 Sep 23 to 24 Come by our booth and pick up one of our signature miniature LEGO sets as a souvenir. Hope to see you soon!

Is there such a thing as releasing mobile updates too fast and too often? In his latest post for the Runway blog, Pol Piella looks to answer that question.   runway.team/blog/is-there-…