Codemagic

Score9.7 out of 10

2 Reviews and Ratings

What is Codemagic?

Codemagic is a developer's CI/CD tool for mobile app projects. Build Android, iOS, React Native, Ionic, Unity, and Flutter projects on Codemagic.

Codemagic uses its own CLI tools under the hood to perform complicated tasks like code signing and distribution to the stores. These are open-sourced and available on Github.

Codemagic offers pay as you go pricing for teams as well as an all-inclusive option with an unlimited plan (called the professional plan).

Codemagic is used by developers just as like many other CI/CD tools, but the vendor states Codemagic excels at iOS by automating code signing and store distribution. They provide hosted (cloud) solution with no need for on-premise machines. They keep up with the latest Xcode versions, Android SDKs, and other dev tools. This helps Codemagic to be effective with mobile projects so that there is no need to install these tools during build time, but they are already available. If something is neededthat is not already on the machine in use, the user can run any script as part of build pipelines and install them.

slack.codemagic.io is an open slack space boasting over 4600 members. Mainly people ask for support, but also this is where the vendor gathers feedback to build the features that people need.

Categories & Use Cases

Mario Carlos G. González Beamond View profile

COO (Chief Operating Officer) in Engineering at Lucky Intelligence SAPI de CV (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It's our default CI/CD for Flutter applications, and it remediates the need to have Mac computers to prepare most of our deployments. It also makes it easy to push multiple testing options of features and simplify the deployment to the App stores, either together or one at a time for different testing. The main drive for us is to avoid buying Mac computers just to facilitate the Compilation of the app; there are team members in charge of looking at iOS or Mac-specific code for the proyects, but they are focused on programing while we have another team that supports the CD process and it is unnecessary for them to also have Macs just to be able to push to stores. It really solves this problem fantastically. We used to have the first version which included two seats, and it helps a lot. However, given the pandemic and also the functionality provided, we were able to reduce our CD staff to 1 person for the mean time, and Codemagic is definatelly able to handle the workload through our current staff. So I do recomend the team license, but those experimenting on Free, you will be able to scale up easily.