buddybuild, the Vancouver-based dev-tool team, is joining Apple's Xcode group

By Rene Ritchie
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Exciting news out of the Canadian developer community: Apple has brought Vancouver-based buddybuild — a company that makes continuous integration, continuous deployment, and user feedback platforms for developers — onto the Xcode team.

We're excited to share that the buddybuild team has joined the Xcode engineering group at Apple to build amazing developer tools for the entire iOS community.We've always been proud to be a Canadian company, so we're also pleased that we will be staying right here in Vancouver — a hotbed of developer and engineering talent.The buddybuild service will remain available to existing customers to build, test, and ship iOS apps to testers through buddybuild.com.As of today, we are no longer accepting new customers. Existing Free Starter plans and Android app development will be discontinued on March 1, 2018. If you have questions about an existing account, please contact us.

The analytics that budybuild provide should fit in well with Apple's existing TestFlight tools. Hopefully we'll learn more at WWDC 2018 this June.

Rene Ritchie
Rene Ritchie
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Rene Ritchie is one of the most respected Apple analysts in the business, reaching a combined audience of over 40 million readers a month. His YouTube channel, Vector, has over 90 thousand subscribers and 14 million views and his podcasts, including Debug, have been downloaded over 20 million times. He also regularly co-hosts MacBreak Weekly for the TWiT network and co-hosted CES Live! and Talk Mobile. Based in Montreal, Rene is a former director of product marketing, web developer, and graphic designer. He's authored several books and appeared on numerous television and radio segments to discuss Apple and the technology industry. When not working, he likes to cook, grapple, and spend time with his friends and family.