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公開日: 2026-06-13
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When teams build and ship mobile apps, they often run into problems with their CI/CD processes. We’ve seen teams with 500+ lines of YAML configuration just to build their iOS app and submit it to the App Store. There’s a lot of domain-specific knowledge needed to ship a mobile app continuously, and writing, maintaining, and improving your team’s setup often becomes a full-time job. The CI/CD service industry isn’t really built for mobile apps. The services are generalized to run anything, so while they can work, they are not the well-crafted tools developers are accustomed to. We kept on seeing developers and companies rebuild mountains of complicated YAML configurations to get similar things done. So, we built a generalized CI/CD with mobile-specific features on top. “CI/CD Workflows” provides < 10 line YAML configs for building, submitting, and more. It also has jobs that get better over time, with things like iOS/Android build caching that make your builds faster (without any changes needed from developers). There is a lot more the service can offer, but you can visit the docs or blog for that depth. This post compares the most popular options for mobile CI/CD in 2026. We'll cover what each tool does well, where each one falls short, and which one you should choose depending on your team and tech stack. Expo has a dog in this fight. So we're biased, but we'll be honest about where other tools win. What to evaluate in a mobile CI/CD tool Before comparing specific services, here are the features that matter for mobile teams: Build speed on Apple Silicon. iOS builds are the bottleneck for most teams. The difference between a 20-minute build on M1 and a 6-minute build on M4 Pro is the difference between a tight feedback loop and developers context-switching to something else. Code signing and credentials. Android and iOS code signing can be painful. Storing and updating service JSON credentials and provisioning profiles can slow down the whole team. Artifact storage. After making a build or over-the-air update, you’ll want to share that with your team of reviewers or send it to an app store. Storing, exposing, and organizing those artifacts is an important feature for any team shipping consistently. Configuration complexity and maintenance. Mobile-specific jobs often balloon the size of the configuration, which is more surface to maintain, optimize, and to produce bugs. Cost structure. The pricing models vary: per-minute, per-build, or credit-based. The sticker price doesn't always tell the whole story, and with some services you only know what you’ll pay after you’ve been using it for a month. The mobile CI/CD comparison EAS Workflows (Expo) EAS Workflows is a mobile CI/CD service built by us (the Expo team). It has prepackaged jobs for builds, submissions, over-the-air updates, end-to-end tests, and more. What Workflows does well: Building your ideal CI/CD process is like LEGO-bricking together high-quality, well-maintained pieces that do exactly what you need. For example, you can create an iOS build using M4 Pro Apple Silicon in 6 lines of YAML. Then add jobs to decide if you even need a full build which can cut down a typical iOS build time from ~10 minutes to 2 minutes (or seconds) if you don’t actually have any native-layer changes. EAS Workflows provides the basic building blocks and the hyper-optimized steps out of the box. The configuration is compact. A full CI pipeline looks like this: name: deploy-to-production on: push: branches: [main] jobs: build_ios: type: build params: platform: ios profile: production upload_to_app_store: needs: [build_ios] type: testflight params: build_id: ${{ needs.build_ios.outputs.build_id }} The pre-packaged job types are mobile-specific: build, submit, update, repack, fingerprint, maestro (E2E testing), testflight, deploy (web hosting), and slack. Each one abstracts away the platform-specific complexity. Where it falls short: EAS Workflows is designed for React Native and Expo projects