GitHub Mobile

2019: Announcement

On November 13, 2019 GitHub announced an exit of the first mobile application. The version by this day became available to iPhone and iPad in the beta testing mode, and users of Android will be able to install the program later (when, it is not specified).

At the first stage the functionality of mobile application is limited. Users will be able to receive notifications, to browse and comment on the code, to accept pull-Requests. Over time possibilities of software will increase, developers promise.

GitHub announced an exit of the first mobile application

In GitHub long time abstained from creation of the proprietary application for smartphones, and it was clear: it is very inconvenient to write the code on the gadget therefore developers prefer notebooks and desktops.

Throughout some time GitHub trusted processing of routine tasks to third-party applications. Now own development will undertake these functions.

Now we have resources for competent development of the proprietary application — Kelly Stirman, the vice president of GitHub who is responsible for strategy and promotion of products explains.

In 2012 GitHub already released the application for Android, but in the 2015th it was deleted from Play Store, Android Police notes.

In the past the company "made advances" to the idea of release of mobile version, but then there was improper time, Dana Lawson, the vice president of GitHub for design says. The company wanted to spend on it time, having only convinced that functions, like the push-notification, work correctly, she added.

The portrait developers constantly changes. Now it is not just the person sitting at home in the bathroom at the computer. Anyone can really be him. Mobile communication provides such flexibility. We knew that our community wanted it [mobile application of GitHub], and we listened to it — she added.[1]

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