Quick Win · Automation

The Release Autopilot: How do updates reach the stores without handiwork?

App delivery at the push of a button: we set up automatic builds and store deployments for iOS and Android, with Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions. You keep the boilerplate, your team takes over. Never again release handiwork.

Who is the Autopilot for?

For teams where every release is an ordeal.

The app is good, but the way into the stores is handiwork: hunting for certificates, bumping versions, kicking off uploads, waiting, hoping. The Release Autopilot is for you if you recognize at least one of these sentences:

  • “A release costs us half a day of handiwork every single time.”
  • “Only one colleague here can release, and he’s about to go on holiday.”
  • “Certificates, provisioning profiles, store upload: a nail-biter every time.”
  • “We put off updates because delivery is so tedious.”
What you get

Four things that simply run afterwards.

Automatic builds

Every change is automatically built, signed and versioned for iOS and Android. Reproducible, documented and independent of whose machine happens to be on.

Store deployments

The way into App Store and Google Play runs at the push of a button: TestFlight and Internal Track for your testers, the store release when you decide. Certificates and profiles sit cleanly in the pipeline.

Boilerplate to keep

The complete pipeline is created in your Azure DevOps or GitHub and belongs to you. No vendor lock-in, no black box: you can read, adapt and reuse every line.

Handover to the team

We go through the pipeline together with your developers: how to trigger a release, how to swap certificates, what to do when a build turns red? Afterwards everyone on the team can do it.

How the setup works

Four steps to the first push-button release.

1 · Kickoff

We clarify your starting point: repository, Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions, developer accounts, certificates. Afterwards both sides know what is needed.

2 · Setup

We build the pipeline: builds, signing, versioning, store connection for iOS and Android. Your team keeps working undisturbed in the meantime.

3 · First release

The proof at the push of a button: your app goes automatically to TestFlight and Internal Track, on request all the way into the stores. Only once that runs is the setup finished.

4 · Handover

A joint appointment with your developers: understand the pipeline, trigger a release, maintain certificates. Afterwards the Autopilot belongs to your team.

Price

Fixed price. Set up once, save on every release.

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Quick Win

The Release Autopilot

Kickoff, setup of automatic builds and store deployments for iOS and Android (Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions), first automatic release, boilerplate to keep, handover to your team. All prices net plus VAT.

The Autopilot pays off quickly: if a release costs your team half a day today, the setup has paid for itself after just a few releases. And the colleague who is the only one who can release can finally go on holiday with peace of mind.

2,499.00 €Fixed price

And how does this fit into your app journey?

The Autopilot is the Quick Win of the app journey: bookable on its own, without a preceding step, without any follow-up obligation. It combines well with the App Inspection (2,499.00 €): it shows how future-proof your app is and brings 1,000.00 € credit toward Stage 1 with it, should you modernize afterwards.

Honestly

If your releases already run automatically, you don’t need us.

The Autopilot pays off for teams that deliver by hand today or whose pipeline only one person understands. If everything at your place has long run at the push of a button, we will tell you so in the first conversation, before you pay anything.

The approach is proven: for KMS/HERMLE we built the mobile app including automated store deployment via GitHub Actions. And our own apps, from the ODYSYS D3 driver app with over 1,000 drivers to Deltaplan’s FIS app, we have delivered exactly this way for years: automatic, reproducible, without handiwork.

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Frequently asked questions

Answered clearly.

Does this also work with our app, which you didn’t build?

In most cases yes. Our focus is .NET apps with .NET MAUI or Xamarin, but the principle works for any app that can be built from the command line. Whether your app is one of them we clarify in the free first conversation, before you pay anything.

Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions, which do you recommend?

The tool you already use. Both platforms can do reliable app releases, and a move just for the pipeline rarely pays off. If you don’t work with either yet, we recommend the more suitable one after a brief look at your environment.

Does the pipeline belong to us afterwards?

Yes, completely. The pipeline sits in your Azure DevOps or GitHub, you keep the boilerplate, and in the handover we show your team how everything works. Afterwards you are not dependent on us, that is the whole point.

What is included in the fixed price of 2,499.00 €?

The setup of automatic builds and store deployments for iOS and Android in Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions, including signing and certificate handling, the boilerplate to keep and the handover to your team. The price is net plus VAT and applies per app up to medium size; special cases we clarify honestly up front.

Do we need our own Apple and Google developer accounts for this?

Yes, the accounts run under your name, because the app belongs to you. If you don’t have any yet, we support you with the setup. Existing certificates and provisioning profiles we place cleanly in the pipeline.

Still unsure?

Want to know how fit your app is overall first?

If it is not only the release process that stalls, but the framework and store compliance also raise questions, the App Inspection is the better first step: traffic-light report, prioritized list of measures, debrief. The Autopilot can then be scheduled specifically afterwards.

To the App Inspection
The next step

Request the Release Autopilot.

Write us briefly how your app is built and delivered today. We get back to you within one business day with date proposals for the kickoff. You talk to someone who understands apps and your .NET world.

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