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Continuous Delivery for Mobile with fastlane

By : Doron Katz
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Continuous Delivery for Mobile with fastlane

By: Doron Katz

Overview of this book

Competitive mobile apps depend strongly on the development team’s ability to deliver successful releases, consistently and often. Although continuous integration took a more mainstream priority among the development industry, companies are starting to realize the importance of continuity beyond integration and testing. This book starts off with a brief introduction to fastlane—a robust command-line tool that enables iOS and Android developers to automate their releasing workflow. The book then explores and guides you through all of its features and utilities; it provides the reader a comprehensive understanding of the tool and how to implement them. Themes include setting up and managing your certificates and provisioning and push notification profiles; automating the creation of apps and managing the app metadata on iTunes Connect and the Apple Developer Portal; and building, distributing and publishing your apps to the App Store. You will also learn how to automate the generation of localized screenshots and mesh your continuous delivery workflow into a continuous integration workflow for a more robust setup. By the end of the book, you will gain substantial knowledge on delivering bug free, developer-independent, and stable application release cycle.
Table of Contents (27 chapters)
Title Page
Dedication
www.PacktPub.com
Foreword
Contributors
Preface
Index

An overview of capturing screenshots on iOS simulator


The iOS simulator, which, as a developer, you are familiar with as part of the Xcode suite of tools, allows you to simulate running your app across various devices, such as iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Apple TV, interacting with the simulator as you would with a real device. While running through your app and going through the various screens, you are able to manually take a screenshot and copy the current visual state to your Mac Clipboard. Take a look at the following screenshot:

To take a screenshot of a running app in Simulator, select Edit | Copy Screen to copy to the clipboard, or File | Save Screen Shot to save the screenshot to your Mac's desktop.

You are also able to take a screenshot (or even record a video) using the command line. With Simulator running, and Terminal open, to take a screenshot you would enter xcrun simctl io booted screenshot file name.png.

The last parameter specifies the filename to store the screenshot as...