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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 13. Upload Screenshots and Metadata with deliver

The two previous chapters helped us nicely set up where we want to be, generating screenshots and beautifying them. By the end of this chapter, we are going to finally deliver (https://docs.fastlane.tools/actions/upload_to_app_store/) our screenshots, along with our metadata and binaries, to iTunes Connect. This critical action will allow us to automate the process of uploading our build, nicely packaged with all the required assets and descriptions, in preparation for submitting our app to Apple's review team.

This chapter promises to be a pivotal one in the goal of creating your ultimate fastlane workflow.

By the end of this chapter, you will have learned how to add deliver to your workflow process, which will:

  • Upload the generated screenshots
  • Upload the final IPA file directly
  • Manage, preview, and upload app metadata seamlessly

We will be working with deliver through the command line to:

  • Run deliver to upload screenshots, metadata, and...