Introduction

In many mobile app shops, builds are still done locally (on dev laptops) or through fragile CI scripts. This leads to inconsistent builds, wasted hours onboarding developers, or debugging “but it worked on my machine” issues.

Using Docker — already popular for backend and microservices — mobile teams can also build a reproducible, scalable, and version-controlled pipeline for both Android and iOS (to the extent possible), which speeds up development, reduces “works on my machine” issues, and enables hybrid mobile/web-backend synergy.