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Mobile release strategy

Skill Amey-Thakur/AI-SKILLS/skills/mobile/mobile-release-strategy

Ship mobile releases through phased rollouts with hotfix paths and a forced-upgrade policy that never strands users. Use when planning app releases, a rollout gate, or recovery from a bad build in the stores.From its SKILL.md

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Mobile release strategy

Mobile releases are irreversible: you cannot pull a build back from a user's device, and store review adds days of latency. Every practice below exists to compensate for those two facts.

Method

  1. Run a release train, not feature-driven releases. A fixed cadence (weekly or biweekly) with a cut date; features that miss the cut ride the next train behind a flag. This removes "hold the release" pressure and makes every release small enough to bisect.
  2. Phase every rollout. Start at 1-2%, watch crash-free rate and the two or three business metrics that matter for 24 hours, then 10%, 50%, 100%. Halt criteria are numeric and pre-agreed (crash-free sessions below 99.5%: stop), not judgment calls at 2 a.m.
  3. Keep a hotfix lane. A branch cut from the released tag, expedited review request, and a rehearsed checklist. Measure hotfix lead time in drills; if it is a week, your only real mitigation is server-side flags, so flag anything risky.
  4. Gate features server-side. Risky code ships dark and turns on remotely after the binary proves stable. This converts most "pull the release" events into "flip the flag off" events, which take minutes.
  5. Design the forced-upgrade path before you need it. A minimum supported version the app checks at launch, a soft-nag window before the hard wall, and a store link. Without it, a broken API contract or security hole lives forever on old installs.
  6. Version deliberately. Marketing version for humans, build number monotonically increasing, API compatibility declared per release so the backend team knows what it must keep serving.

Boundaries

  • Store review can reject any release; never promise same-day fixes to stakeholders, and never bundle a policy-sensitive change into a hotfix.
  • Phased rollout on Android and iOS cannot target specific users; for cohort control you need server-side flags, not store percentages.
  • This governs distribution, not quality; it assumes CI already gates on tests and startup health.

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  • Run a release train
  • Phase every rollout
  • Keep a hotfix lane
  • Gate features server-side
  • Design the forced-upgrade path
  • Version deliberately

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