Developing your own Bitrise Step
You can develop your own Bitrise Steps and your own project scanner, and submit them to Bitrise so that other users can use them, too.
Contributing to Bitrise is easy: develop an open source integration, submit it and you’re done! In this section, we’ll be focusing on technical contributions: creating a new Step and creating your very own project scanner.
Creating your own Step
Bitrise offers well over 200 Steps to our users. We maintain many of them ourselves but our users’ community does an outstanding job of contributing to our Step Library (StepLib). Anyone can submit a Step - if approved, it will become part of the official Bitrise StepLib and available to all Bitrise users! Check out how to create your own Step and share it with the world: Creating your own Step.
Creating your own scanner
Our project scanner automatically detects the project type whenever you add a new app on Bitrise. In this context, type means the platform or framework used to create the app, for example, Android, iOS, React Native or Flutter. Based on the results, we automatically create a configuration, with at least one default Workflow that contains the most frequently used Steps for the detected type.
Our scanner might not detect your app, for a couple of reasons: either something is missing from your repository (such as a config.xml file in the case of an Ionic app, for example), or we simply don’t have a scanner for your type yet. If it’s the latter, you can configure your app manually, or you can create your own scanner, with its own project configuration: Creating your own Bitrise project scanner.