Build System

We've wanted a more formal build system with WhirlyGlobe-Maply for quite some time.  Thanks to José we've finally got one!

Nightly and on-demand builds are now available!

Binary Versions

It turns out not everyone wants to build the toolkit from source every time.  Weird, right?

So for those strange people we've had a binary distribution.  You can see it linked off the main site and it got updated... you know... sometimes.  Well now we're doing better.

If you go to the Builds tab on the WhirlyGlobe-Maply site you'll see this.

That's the filtered output from our Jenkins server, a Mac Mini sitting in the corner of my office.  I expect it to last several years before filling up with dust and catching fire.

You can just use the binary framework directly on iOS.  On Android it's an AAR file with every frickin' architecture.

Binary Cocoapod

If you're a Cocoapods user the iOS zip files contain a Podspec.  That makes it a self extracting Pod.  To use it, all you have to do is this.


If we've pointed you at a specific feature build, you just use the URL for that one.

Continuous Integration

We're also triggering builds for commits to certain branches.  For now that's just develop_2_4_1 (aka version 2.5) and develop_3_0 (Android).  We'll add more as we go.

This is nice internally and it's already caught a few commit mistakes, but we plan to go further. The goal is to hook up our test apps and run them on attached Android and iOS devices.

All this work was done under the guise of WhirlyGlobe-Maply support.  You support customers paid for it.  Thanks!