Currently we have our own home grown Xcode continuous integration farm with Intel and Apple Silicon Mac minis. We've been piloting Xcode Cloud, but have found much slower build times than we expected. We understand cloud services won't be as responsive as our dedicated Macs, but the times are much higher than expected.
Most of our projects are Swift, but we have one React Native project that takes 40 minutes to build on Xcode Cloud. Dependencies (like Cocoapods and NPM) seem like a build time issue for that project specifically. We're worried how that could affect even our pure Swift projects with SPM dependencies. And build times generally also seem slow.
The real issue besides the speed is that we're paying per hour for Xcode Cloud. And even if we decided to take the slower build times as a trade off to not having to maintain our own Macs, it seems like we'd quickly run out of time even on the highest tier plan.
Is there any plan to maybe kick in some more machines or bandwidth into the Xcode Cloud backend? Even our React Native app (which seems to be the worst case) takes less than 10 minutes to build end to end locally.