$ grep -r Tag: «app store release informer»

Recently, I've been playing a lot with AI agents, and it really inspired me to update my projects. Playing with real-life tasks makes it more fun.

Couchdb Swift client lib

There are 2 new releases of couchdb-swift library. Copilot kindly added more unit tests to the library to cover more use cases. Mostly failures. I still had to tweak a lot manually, but it gave me some ideas. So I've added more error handling in these 2 recent releases. Also, it found a couple of minor bugs and fixed them, reviewed my PR, and suggested some improvements. Far from being perfect yet, but still pretty impressive.

Release Informer Bot for Telegram

At some moment, I found that Copilot Agent is available for my account, and I can simply start with an issue on GitHub, assign it to the agent, and see what it will do. I've started with a request to update the README for Release Informer Bot with some nice details about how it works and how to set it up.

After the agent finished the updated README, it gave me another idea. Setting up might be automated. So I've opened Visual Studio Code and asked the Copilot agent to add automatic creation of the required database and set it up with the required CouchDB indexes.

It also did a good job, but it still required some manual tweaks and changes. And during that, it led to one more release of the CouchDB client lib because I wanted to rely on a proper "not found" error.

It's hard to tell how much time Copilot saved me. But definitely a lot. Including my favorite automatic string translations. Hopefully, that will inspire me to ship more.

I rewrote my bot in ES2015 and also added tests. When the bot reports that a new version has been released in the App Store, it now also shows what is new in that version.

Source code on GitHub.

I had been carrying this idea around for a while and finally implemented it. Apple has a REST API for searching iTunes. I made a bot for Telegram that lets you subscribe to app updates. When a new version comes out, it writes to you in Telegram, whether in a private chat or a group chat. Now at work we will all be able to find out quickly when new versions of our apps go live in the App Store.

I wrote it in Node.js as best I could. The main thing is that it works. I wanted to make something for Android folks too, but it turns out Google Play has no API. None at all O_O.

Try the bot: https://telegram.me/ReleaseInformerBot (just type /help when you start)

If anyone wants to add something, the source code is on Github: https://github.com/makoni/ReleaseInformerBot

True, besides Node.js it uses my favorite CouchDB as the database. But to run it on a Mac, you just download the binary and you are done (well, and create the DB + views).