Ask HN: Hey mobile devs, how often do you release to an app store?

1 pointwuliwong1 comment

At my company, our mobile teams have releases to their app stores about once a month. I am a backend developer and was wondering what this looks like for other mobile teams. A secondary question is if this release cycle includes Android and iOS or are the two platforms allowed to maintain different release cycles?

Thanks!

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I've worked at a company where we'd release every week and heavily leverage feature gates to hide features before they were ready for launch. And I've worked at a company that had no defined cadence - we'd release in big, well-defined chunks when features were fully baked and fully QA'd; no feature gates were needed on the client here.

There's value in both approaches, but I think I prefer the latter when the team size is small. Once you have multiple teams/priorities, the equation changes and it makes sense to have a more distributed, less segmented process. But initially it's great to have the predictability of well defined, packaged, well-QA'd releases. Results in a very high quality product and makes it really easy to debug/fix issues between releases.

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