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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
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Foreword
Contributors
Preface
Index

Chapter 12. Put Our Screenshots Inside Frames with frameit

In the previous chapter, you learned how to generate localized screenshots using snapshot (https://docs.fastlane.tools/actions/capture_ios_screenshots/). In this chapter, we are now going to focus on a related fastlane action, frameit (https://docs.fastlane.tools/actions/frame_screenshots/), which, as its name suggests, adds device frames around your app screenshots in preparation for your submission to the App Store to give your users a more visual context about how the app looks and feels on a device.

Through a simple fastlane action, you can customize your screenshot frames for the various disparate devices you support, such as the iPhone and the iPad (in all screen size variations), as well as in both portrait and landscape modes.

By the end of this chapter, you will learn how to add frameit(https://github.com/fastlane/fastlane/tree/master/frameit) to your workflow process, which will do the following:

  • Add multiple device frames...