I have an app idea. Its working but

bradzo · February 5, 2017, 5:56am

… the problem I face is ultimately being able to build for iOS and Android.

The main app is an “app-builder” type of app, where people can select “modules” they want to include, say, an about us page, a contact form, an articles page, a map, a quote page (allowing image upload - hey can you fix this?) etc.

No code required from the client point of view, just drag modules to the app builder surface.

This is working ok so far (I love Meteor!) but now I find myself with a dilemma.

How to build an ipa and apk for both iOS and Android when code is pushed to a repo?

I’ve setup Jenkins on my iMac, and have googled for how to get it to trigger a build, but that seems to involve Bitbucket/Github webhooks calling my local iMac at home, at a public url - which probably isn’t the best idea moving forward.

Amazon can’t provide Mac OS images, so that’s out.

I know about Meteor build machines, but that seems to be for packages only - not an entire app?

github.com

meteor/docs/blob/version-NEXT/long-form/build-machines.md

Meteor distributes fully pre-build packages called [Isopacks](https://www.meteor.com/isobuild). This helps ensure similar behavior across platforms and means that casual Meteor users do not need to install Xcode in order to run their apps. This means that packages must be built for all platforms that are supported by Meteor (os.osx.x86_64, os.linux.x86_64 and os.linux.x86_32). In the future, this will be done automatically by Meteor -- but for now, we ask that you publish the builds manually.

In order to help with that, Meteor provides access to pre-configured build machines. To access a build machine, log in with your meteor developer account and run:

```sh
# OS X
meteor admin get-machine os.osx.x86_64

# Linux on 64-bit Intel
meteor admin get-machine os.linux.x86_64

# Linux on 32-bit Intel
meteor admin get-machine os.linux.x86_32

# Windows on 32-bit Intel
meteor admin get-machine os.windows.x86_32
```

This will open a secure shell to build machines on all three platforms. From there, you can use ` meteor publish-for-arch` to publish the package; see `meteor help publish-for-arch` for more details.

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(I do have a Meteor developer account)

Thanks for reading this far - any thoughts on how I could progress this would be very much appreciated.