Bitrise vs Buck

Bitrise vs Buck: What are the differences?

Developers describe Bitrise as "Automate your mobile app development from building through testing to deployment". In short Bitrise is a Continous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD) Platform as a Service (PaaS) with a main focus on mobile app development (iOS, Android). You can automate the testing and deployment of your apps with just a few clicks. When you trigger a build a Virtual Machine is assigned to host your build and your defined Workflow (series of Steps scripts) will be executed, step by step. On the other hand, Buck is detailed as "A build system developed and used by Facebook". Buck encourages the creation of small, reusable modules consisting of code and resources, and supports a variety of languages on many platforms.

Bitrise belongs to "Mobile Continuous Integration" category of the tech stack, while Buck can be primarily classified under "Java Build Tools".

Some of the features offered by Bitrise are:

• Continuous Delivery
• Hosted Environment
• Customizable Workflows

On the other hand, Buck provides the following key features:

• Speed up your Android builds. Buck builds independent artifacts in parallel to take advantage of multiple cores. Further, it reduces incremental build times by keeping track of unchanged modules so that the minimal set of modules is rebuilt.
• Introduce ad-hoc build steps for building artifacts that are not supported out-of-the-box using the standard Ant build scripts for Android.
• Keep the logic for generating build rules in the build system instead of requiring a separate system to generate build files.

Buck is an open source tool with 6.82K GitHub stars and 1.02K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Buck's open source repository on GitHub.