Today I’m excited to announce the addition of GitLab integration with Ionic Appflow. Now you can easily connect your GitLab code repositories to Appflow to manage native app builds, deploy to app stores, and update your apps over time.

Haven’t used Appflow before? It’s a mobile DevOps solution that makes it easy to continuously build, deploy, and update mobile app experiences across iOS, Android, and the web. With Appflow, you can fully automate your team’s app development workflow, and go from idea to production.

Appflow works directly with Git version control, using your codebase as the source of truth for all available services, including the Live Update feature (update the UI and business logic of your app remotely in real-time) and Package feature (building native app binaries for iOS and Android in the cloud). Simply link your Git host then push a new code commit to start building in the cloud.

All The Git Hosts

Ionic Appflow has been integrated with various Git hosting solutions since the beginning, including GitHub, Bitbucket, Bitbucket Server, and even our own hosted version. We’ve been very happy with all of them, but thanks to lots of community feedback, it became clear that Appflow was still missing one popular solution: GitLab.

GitLab is a complete open-source DevOps platform that helps teams automate the release and delivery of applications by shortening the delivery lifecycle, streamlining manual processes, and accelerating team velocity.

As fans of GitLab (we use their services to manage and deploy Ionic Appflow, in fact!), we’re personally excited about this new integration too. The best part? Connecting a GitLab repository to Appflow involves just a few short steps.

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