Set Up CI/CD in Flutter Using Codemagic

Where magic happens at every push

Fig. 1. DevOps Architecture (https://www.netsparker.com/devops-security-tools/)

Hello, Flutter developers. It’s been a long time since I’ve posted another piece on mobile app development. This is a new piece on Continous Integration and Continous Deployment (or Delivery)(CI/CD) in Flutter. As we all know, Flutter is an emerging technology for building mobile apps for both Android and iOS. You can look at the Flutter website for more about Flutter for web apps.

When did I come across CI/CD? The answer is when I did advanced software development in my uni. We had a major project (ServiceGo) where we had to set up the whole DevOps pipeline. When I set up the DevOps pipeline, I always was notified in Slack, which I found very interesting. After the complete DevOps setup, I loved the DevOps practice in the software development industry.

Fig. 2. How DevOps work (Image source: Author)

Now, let’s talk about the CI/CD for Flutter. As I searched the internet for information about CI/CD for Flutter, I couldn’t get enough resources to start configuring. I found Fledge for Flutter, but I didn’t like the documentation. (Please correct me if I am wrong.) Then I found Codemagic, which is especially designed for Flutter. It really has good…