CD and DevOps are based on culture, behaviors, and ways of working, and therefore applying these approaches to delivering mobile applications—which is a large and ever-growing industry—can work. That isn't to say that it's a cookie-cutter adoption; there are a few caveats in terms of how delivering mobile-application software differs from web-based/server-based software delivery, the main ones at the time of writing being as follows:
- Delivering software to a web platform 10 times per day seamlessly without impacting the end user is achievable—you are in full control of the infrastructure and the mechanism for releasing it. Doing the same with a mobile application will have a major impact on the end user—can you imagine what would happen if you sent a mobile app to end users' smartphones 10 times per day...