Runway (runway.team)

Check out this week's hotfix TTR leaderboard. Among the fastest on both Android and iOS: 🏅Mighty Doom (Bethesda Game Studios)- 45m  🏅Business Insider - 3h 36m  🏅Pura - 5h 46m  🏅Spin Scooters - 6h 49m See who else made the list:

ICYMI, in last week's edition of the Flight Deck we looked at: - Humans write code, and humans make mistakes by Jacob Rakidzich - Writing great release notes doesn't need to be hard by Eli Perkins - The meme that gave me imposter syndrome by Jacob Bartlett - Shopify is open sourcing Tophat by Shopify - And much more. Read it here:

Following regimented steps for each release is critical to ensuring your app faces as few problems as possible. From thoughtful planning, to thorough testing, having a very organized process for pre-release fixes, feature flagging, phased rollouts, careful monitoring… This is what mobile release management is all about. But no matter how well you prepare, how thoroughly you test, and how carefully you roll out, there will come a day — perhaps an otherwise beautiful Saturday afternoon — when your on-call engineer will get paged because your app is crashing for 20% of users. What now? How can you ensure they see the full scope of potential issues and take action on them so that problems are fully resolved, ensuring that the next on-call engineer doesn’t get paged about a similar problem on an otherwise beautiful Sunday evening?

We had a great time at two Runway happy hours this month. Thanks to everyone who came out to our events in Copenhagen on August 15th and NYC on August 22nd! If you missed out, there’s more to come in September. Find us at: - NSSpain in Logroño on September 18 and 19 - droidcon NYC in, you guessed it, NYC on September 19 and 20  - Swift Connection in Paris on September 23 and 24 We hope to see you at one or more of these! We’ll likely also host a happy hour or two alongside these conferences, so be on the lookout for an invite.

AI will never build your app and your release process will never be fully automated away. Why not? Because AI and automation are tools humans wield, not magic spells that will take any idea we have and create it for us. The more you can automate away the busywork of software development and mobile releases, the more time you’ll have to put into building and improving your app. But no robot will be able to do the hard work of strategizing, planning, adapting, and building complex apps and systems in our lifetimes. That work is still gonna be on us and we need tools that can facilitate this work alongside any AI and automation we may be using.

Today’s the day. Runway’s happy hour at Saint Bar in NYC is at 5:30pm this evening. RSVP to join us for free snacks, drinks, and good mobile company. Will we be giving out some of our signature, mini lego planes and control towers to attendees? Only one way to find out. https://pp.events/ajq2WJMG

Back in the spring, the average time an iOS app spent waiting for review was ~ 5h 30m, and 1 hr 30 mins in review. As summer really heats up this month (or winter cools down if you’re in the Southern Hemisphere) are reviews speeding up or slowing down? ⏰ Waiting: 9 hr 18m 🔎 In review: 1 hr 52m Slowing down quite a bit. What about TestFlight beta review wait times? Even longer. Get the details:

Manually uploading screenshots and other assets to App Store Connect can be a tedious, error-prone process, especially if you regularly change them between versions or have many localizations to support. Pol Piella walks through how to use the App Store Connect API to automate these uploads.  

Are you in Copenhagen? Statistically, this is unlikely. Less than 1% of our followers are in Denmark. But should you be among those 0.6%, we’d love for you to join us for drinks, snacks, and good mobile company at our upcoming happy hour co-hosted by Copenhagen Swift & Cocoa this Thursday. RSVP below: 

We had a great time in SF yesterday (as always) sponsoring the monthly SF CocoaHeads / SLUG meetup! Thanks to all the folks who came out, especially the speakers and organizers: Carola Nitz, Dustyn August, and Marcos Griselli. Special thanks to Lyft for hosting the meetup at their beautiful HQ for the second time this year and congrats to Michael Critz on winning our LEGO space shuttle raffle.