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Default Workflows
When you add a new app on bitrise.io, one or two Workflows are created automatically, depending on your app. These are the primary and the deploy Workflows.
When you add a new app on bitrise.io, one or two Workflows are created automatically, depending on your app. These are the primary and the deploy Workflows.
Triggers can be configured so that any other Workflow (including deploy) is automatically triggered when certain code events happen.
The primary Workflow
The primary Workflow is automatically created when adding a new app. Once the process of adding the app is over, Bitrise triggers the app’s first build automatically: this build runs with the primary workflow.
The primary Workflow is not the same for every app you create: it contains different Steps depending on the project type. For example, an Android project’s primary Workflow will include the Install missing Android SDK components, the Android Lint and the Android Unit Test Steps. But overall, primary is a basic Workflow that always performs the following actions:
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Activates the SSH key, if one has been added to the app. The step saves it to file and then loads it into the user’s ssh-agent with the
ssh-addcommand. The Step, by default, does not run if there is no SSH key added. -
Clones the Git repository of the project with the Git Clone Repository Step.
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Runs the Bitrise.io Cache:Pull and Bitrise.io Cache:Push Steps.
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Deploys build artifacts with the Deploy to Bitrise.io Step.
The deploy Workflow
The deploy Workflow is automatically created when adding a new app if you have tests configured in your app. It is similar to the primary Workflow in a number of ways:
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It has the same basic steps.
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Its specific steps are dependent on the project type.
The deploy Workflow, however, also contains the Steps that build the project, and, if the build is successful, produces the necessary artifacts for installing the app or deploying it online. For example, an Android project’s deploy Workflow contains the Android Build Step that builds your project with Gradle, and the Android Sign Step that creates a signed APK which can be deployed to Google Play or installed on test devices.
A Workflow is a collection of Steps, Environment Variables, and other configurations. When Bitrise starts a build, it runs one or more Workflows according to the configuration defined in the bitrise.yml file.
An app on Bitrise represents a Git repository that stores source code and has been connected to Bitrise to be able to run builds on it. As such, a Bitrise app isn't necessarily an actual application: it's just the code on which you run builds with Bitrise.