While ReadyCI has served a valuable purpose in it's time, it will be deprecated as many more mature cloud-based solutions have since been created.

If you are looking to use ReadyCI, consider using one of the many cloud-based DevOps solutions that have much better support for Mobile App builds.

A no-fuss CI/CD tool for iOS and Android apps

• ReadyCI comes with build scripts so that you spend less time setting up your automated CI/CD infrastructure, and get to making automated builds faster. ReadyCI scripts currently support: iOS apps, Android apps, Maven projects and Sonarqube.

• Runs as command-line or web-service. You can run ReadyCI on the command-line within another CI environment like Jenkins, or run ReadyCI as a service on it's own and accept web-hook calls from GIT services like Github and Bitbucket.

• Supports web-hooks. ReadyCI supports GIT commit web-hooks when you run it in server mode so that your automated builds start as soon as you push to your git repository. ReadyCI supports web-hooks from GitHub and BitBucket.

• Parses iOS provisioning profiles. Configuring iOS builds is tricky. ReadyCI uses the .mobileprovision file generated by Apple Developer Portal to automatically configure your build and remove some of the guess-work behind making your iOS app build successful. ReadyCI also keeps the provisioning profiles on CI agent up-to-date. All you need to do is commit updated provisioning profiles to your GIT repository and ReadyCI will take it from there.

• Deploys to App Store Connect, Google Play and Hockeyapp. ReadyCI can automatically deploy your app to Hockeyapp or the respective app stores. Just add the appropriate task and credentials and ReadyCI will get your upload your build for you.

• Keeps credentials safe. ReadyCI allows you to split configuration accross multiple configuration files so that you can keep your credentials safely on your CI server and out of your GIT repository.

Download ReadyCI From https://readyci.org

Run a once off build by specifying the path to a configuration file and an appropriate pipeline name. It's only fitting that ReadyCI be able to build itself! Have a look at the example below which builds ReadyCI and copies the artefact to the /tmp/ folder.

$ java -jar readyci.jar readyci_config_example.yml pipeline=readyci

Loaded configuration readyci_config_example.yml with 2 pipelines
...
ReadyCI is in command-line mode
Building pipline readyci
...
FINISHED BUILD 74e404d8-6bae-41fa-8aa1-4d786c797c58 

A successful build will deploy readyci.jar to your /tmp/ directory. You can check that it's there like this:

$ ls -la /tmp/*.jar 
-rw-r--r--  1 bradley  wheel  16612035 Jun 13 12:30 /tmp/readyci.jar

Try this out yourself using the configuration readyci_config_example.yml to run a ReadyCI build named readyci.

Head over to the wiki to learn more: https://github.com/DeloitteDigitalAPAC/readyci/wiki