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Xcode Cloud overview

by math-dev on 8/30/22, 9:27 PM with 154 comments

• by alberth on 8/30/22, 10:29 PM

  Dumb question: why does a cloud offering require onprem macOS?

  Shouldn’t folks on iOS at least be able to access XCode Cloud

• by homarp on 8/30/22, 9:39 PM

  see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32654493

  "[author] has been using Xcode Cloud to compile and deploy my rcmd app switcher (https://lowtechguys.com/rcmd) for the past few months, and it’s been a great experience.

  I liked that with a single “git push” I could compile, archive, deploy to TestFlight, and send for beta review. I even pushed a fix from my iPhone using Working Copy one time while I was on a train.

  These are the pricing plans for those interested:

  - 25 compute hours/month: Free*

  - 100 compute hours/month: $49.99/month

  - 250 compute hours/month: $99.99/month

  - 1000 compute hours/month: $399.99/month

  * Free through December 2023, then $14.99/month if you choose to subscribe at that time. "

• by BonoboIO on 8/30/22, 11:03 PM

  You can get a Mac Mini M1 as Server for as low as 49$ per month from hetzner.

  If you need more CI „hours“ this is a good way to go. For signing and the workflows a base subscription is maybe a good deal.

  https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/brands/matrix-a...

  Those parallel Test will get through your hours very quickly.

• by password4321 on 8/31/22, 12:49 PM

  Achieving an open-source implementation of Apple Code Signing and notarization

  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32386762

• by Apocryphon on 8/30/22, 10:21 PM

  Finally, the fruits of the Buddybuild acquisition(?)

• by akmarinov on 8/30/22, 9:56 PM

  For comparison Bitrise charges 3 tokens per minute on an M1 mac and 10 000 tokens are $500. That gives you 55 hours.

• by frizlab on 8/30/22, 10:51 PM

  It’s a small c in Xcode…

• by jbverschoor on 8/30/22, 10:35 PM

  The first steps to Apple’s AWS competitor. Their multi billion contract with Amazon will end soon, so the timing makes perfect sense.

• by m3kw9 on 8/30/22, 9:40 PM

  25$ or compute hours free a month, I wonder how much tests that is, and any overhead cpu costs?

• by nikanj on 8/30/22, 9:39 PM

  Does this mean one can reasonably develop ios apps without a mac?

• by solarkraft on 8/30/22, 11:17 PM

  I do wonder how they're implementing this. Are they also building Mac Mini farms or are they making exemptions from their ToS for themselves like so often to get around that and be able to run their service more efficiently than their competitors?

  It feels like something that may or should be prevented by some laws.

• by keyle on 8/30/22, 10:30 PM

  Cough cough, sarcastic old dev here "yeah, that's what XCode needed, cloud CI/CD".

• by zackify on 8/31/22, 3:43 AM

  Xcode cloud is terrible. Slow. Fails randomly with unknown error messages.

  Save yourself time and money with an M1 Mac mini as a GitHub actions self hosted runner.

  Pays for itself quickly, you can upload apps direct to App Store Connect from Xcode cli tools already.

• by fellellor on 8/31/22, 4:14 AM

  Do people find it hard to run Xcode on their MacBook Air? Who is this service targeted to? I’m asking because I don’t know.