How to Create Teams in Mobile DevSecOps Build System to Accelerate Delivery
When working in a team, there are different roles for each team member – for example, one builds the app, the other signs it, and another one reviews it. Appdome enables working in that manner by using Appdome for Teams.
This Knowledge Base article provides an overview of Appdome for Teams, explaining how to leverage Appdome’s built-in templates, workflows, approval chains, and entitlement controls to achieve better mobile outcomes through cross-functional and cross-organizational collaboration.
We hope you find this knowledge base useful and enjoy using Appdome!
How to Use Team Workflows in Mobile App Security Projects
Appdome for Teams enables you to collaborate with your teammates in order to integrate with Appdome. You can use all of Appdome’s features in a team, so each team member can do his role in building the app while viewing all the other team members’ progress.
Using Appdome, there are no development or coding prerequisites. For example, there is no Appdome SDK, libraries, or plug-ins to implement. The Appdome technology adds features and relevant standards, frameworks, and more to the app automatically, with no manual development work at all.
Prerequisites for using Appdome for Teams
To use Appdome for Teams features, you need Appdome account – Ideal-GO or Higher.
Appdome for Teams is Ideal for CI/CD Development Environments
Development organizations invest heavily in creating unique CI/CD development cycles that meet their organizational needs. Project managers and DevOps team leads, assign specific responsibilities during the development cycle to specific experts. This manner of working ensures that the right people are doing the right job and accelerates the development cycle, and is a fundamental part of any CI/CD process. Adding a dependency on external integration processes will have a significant impact on well-oiled CI/CD processes.
Appdome for Teams is ideal for getting the right experts doing what they need to focus on in a collaborative mobile integration project.
How to Use Appdome for Teams
The sections below provide step-by-step instructions to collaborate by using Appdome for Teams.
To create a Team:
- Click on Personal Workspace at the top left of your screen.
- Click Create Team.
- Use the Create Team dialog box that opens now to perform the following steps:
- Enter the name of your team.
- Optionally, perform one or more of the following tasks:
- Write a brief description of the team.
- Invite team members to collaborate as part of your team.
Optionally, you can enforce your domain on the team. - Upload a CSV file containing the names of team members as well as their entitlements and roles. For details, see How to Add Team Members with Entitlements and Roles from CSV in DevSecOps Build System.
- Click + Create Team.
Congratulations! You’ve now created a team and are ready for collaboration.
Editing and Managing Teams
After creating a team, you can modify, edit, and manage it on Appdome.
Here is a walkthrough and the actions you can perform:
- Click on Personal Workspace at the top left of your screen.
- Go to your requested team and click Team Management.
- Under Team Management you can see all of your teams. Open one to see more details.
You can choose any of the following activities:
- Invite additional members to the team
To do that, press the + button.
- Edit the team name and description
To do that, click the Edit Team button, to edit the team name and description.
- Delete the team
To do that, click the Team Details button to open the Team Details dialog box, which allows you to request to delete the team.
- Remove a specific team member
- Edit and add entitlements
For more information regarding entitlements, read the Knowledge Base article How to Set User Entitlements in Mobile App Security Projects.
After you have created your team, there are a few additional steps שׁneeded to complete your mobile integration project.
Upload a Mobile App to Your Team
Once the team is created, you can add apps to it. To do this, click Add App at the top left of the screen.
Build the App
After you have an app on your team account, you can Build it with the features, SDKs, and APIs you want to add to your app.
For more information on how to build an app, and the wide range of options you have, please read this knowledge base article.
Add Context™ to the Appdome-Fused App
Appdome is a full-featured mobile integration platform. Within Context™, Appdome users can brand the app, including adding a favicon to denote the new service added to the app.
For more information on the range of options available in Context™, please read this knowledge base article.
Sign the Appdome Fused App (Required)
In order to deploy an Appdome Fused app, it must be signed. Signing an iOS app and Signing an Android app is easy using Appdome. Alternatively, you can use Private Signing, download your unsigned app, and sign locally using your own signing methods.
Deploy the Appdome-Fused App to a Mobile Device
Once you have signed your Appdome-Fused app, you can download to deploy it using your distribution method of choice. For more information on deploying your Appdome-Fused apps, please read this knowledge base.
That is it – Enjoy collaborating with Appdome for Teams!
How Do I Learn More?
Check out Appdome for Teams press release or request a demo at any time.
If you have any questions, please send them our way at support@appdome.com or via the chat window on the Appdome platform.
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