GitHub, which hosts both open source and private software projects, announced today that it will launch a mobile app for iOS and Android, allowing users to view code, merge changes and share actions wherever they want.
Of course, as a “dating platform,” GitHub is more about making it easier for people to communicate anywhere and anytime, although GitHub says it’s about making it easier for people to work on their phones and stay in touch with their teams.

In addition to the GitHub Mobile app, GitHub made several major announcements today.

GitHub announced at the GitHub Universe conference in San Francisco that it will launch an official Android and iOS app that will allow developers to respond to user questions, read bug reports, and address issues via mobile phones
Assign to other developers.

As usual, GitHub has released a number of major updates to make it easier for developers to write code, including the GitHub Actions app, new GitHub Packages going into beta, a redesigned notification experience, and the release of GitHub Mobile.

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GitHub mobile is here

Since its launch in 2008, GitHub has grown almost in sync with smartphones, so it’s surprising that the social network, which has more than 40 million developers, still doesn’t have an App of its own. The reason is simple: The best environment for development has always been on a desktop or laptop, so Github has always existed as a website.

Why mobile now?

Kelly Stirman, GitHub’s vice president of strategy and product marketing, says, “After all these years, we finally have the resources and the ability to do it the right way.”

GitHub sees every line of code a programmer types as a collaborative interaction with millions of other contributors, so it wants to improve real-time interaction between programmers in the community to make projects more efficient. That’s where apps come in — so developers can respond to user questions, read bug reports, and assign problems to other developers via the phone to optimize the code as quickly as possible.

Making the App features

Since GitHub mobile is built as a native app, it can automatically adapt to different screen sizes and even dark mode depending on your system preference.

GitHub mobile is now in Beta for iOS and coming soon for Android. Registered making Mobile preview: https://github.com/mobile

GitHub on mobile devices will allow users to receive notifications of ongoing open source or private projects, merge pull requests, submit new questions, or add code to the repository. The App also has Favorites, Recent and Pinned features to make it easy for users to mark items they are interested in.

“I would bet that within five years, more than half of all interactions on GitHub will be on mobile devices,” GitHub CEO Nat Friedman said in a press release. “It’s kind of like refining the GitHub experience,” said Dana Lawson, GitHub’s vice president of engineering. “Using mobile devices, you can manage, sort, and clear notifications, collaborate on pull requests, and receive push notifications when they’re directly requested.”

GitHub also brought some new features to the site this year.

GitHub announced a beta version of GitHub Actions at last year’s developer conference, and one year on, it’s officially bringing this new feature. GitHub Actions is a way to create and share automated software development generation, including fully continuous integration and continuous delivery or CI/CD solutions for DevOps and native package management.

There are now more than 1,200 community-developed workflows available on GitHub Marketplace, and the list is growing fast, with contributors including Amazon Web Services Inc., Google LLC, HashiCorp, Twilio Inc. And so on. GitHub also announced free use of self-hosted runtime programs, artifact caching, and the ability to run actions on ARM-based architectures such as Raspberry Pi.

Additional features include semantic code navigation for all Ruby, Python, and Go repositories; Ability to plan to pull request reminders; And the ability to assign code reviews to specific team members. The GitHub client will also provide an improved notification experience to help developers quickly process team work requests.

“With GitHub Sponsors, developers can help each other directly from their daily workflow,” says Devon Zuegel, Senior product manager at GitHub.

It’s worth noting that GitHub was acquired by Microsoft for $7.5 billion in June 2018. GitHub said it was working on its mobile APP before the acquisition, but that having Microsoft at its back gave it more space.