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How to integrate buddybuild's SDK |
Integrate the buddybuild SDK to access graphical user feedback reports, crash reports, tester usage and analytics, and automatic app updates.
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The buddybuild SDK is a lightweight yet powerful suite of tools that integrates seamlessly into your application. The SDK includes a graphical feedback reporter, a crash reporting and analysis tool, automatic app updating and usage tracking. The SDK is regularly updated with new features.
The buddybuild SDK enables the following features:
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File size of the buddybuild SDK Integrating the buddybuild SDK will increase the size of the resulting
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With buddybuild, you simply take a screenshot to share feedback. Our feedback reporter sends graphically annotated screenshots, feedback notes and device metadata to your team. Integrate with GitHub, Jira, and Pivotal Tracker to track feedback as issues. Learn more.
No more emailing testers for repro steps. Along with each crash report, buddybuild will also attach a 15 second video of your testers' interactions with your App’s UI right up to the point where it crashed — allowing you to instantly see what they did to cause a crash.
Receiving feedback on old builds is pointless — you’ve probably already fixed the issue you’ve received feedback on! It is crucial to keep your testers and beta users updated on the very latest builds. If a newer build is available, the buddybuild SDK can automatically prompt to install the latest version of your app. Learn more.
Know when your testers download and launch your app in real time. Identify who tested your app, when they launched it and what version they tested. Correlate this with feedback and crash reports to understand your customers' experience. Learn more.
Enabling the SDK requires code changes in your application. We can make these changes automatically so you don’t have to! Enable the buddybuild SDK in just four easy steps.
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Log in to the buddybuild dashboard. The list of builds is displayed:
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Click the Feedback button in the top navigation bar. The
Feedback screen is displayed:
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Click the Install the SDK button. The Install the SDK screen
is displayed:
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Click the Install button beside each branch that should have the
buddybuild SDK integrated. Typically, the SDK is used by your testers,
so install the SDK on the branches that deploy to your testers.
Buddybuild automatically makes the code changes and commits them to
the selected branch. Note that if you integrate the SDK on the
masterbranch, the SDK is included in all new branches based onmasterthereafter.The branch’s entry in the list is replaced with a notice indicating that a new build has been started:
That’s it! A new build is kicked off with the SDK enabled. Install this build on your device. Open your app and take a screenshot — and see what happens!
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You’re all set now to deploy your app broadly to all your testers. There is just one more thing.
Typically, development and testing devices need to be manually added to your provisioning profiles before they can accept deployed builds. This requires app developers to acquire the UDID (the device unique id) of the testing devices from the testers, and then add them to the provisioning profiles used to build the app. This process is manual and is the source of a lot of headache for developers.
We’ve automated this process as well. Buddybuild can acquire UDIDs of your testers' devices, add them to your provisioning profiles completely automatically and transparently.
To enable this, connect your Apple Developer account with buddybuild.
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Prefer to manually integrate the SDK? Follow the Manual SDK Integration guide. |
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Open the Terminal and
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Commit and push the changes.