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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

How to manually upload a new build to iTunes Connect


To appreciate the sheer amount of work deliver (https://github.com/fastlane/fastlane/tree/master/deliver) does for you under the hood, we are going start off by running through the motions of uploading a new build to iTunes Connect manually, complete with all the screenshots and metadata, as well as uploading our binary via Xcode.

In the early chapters, we went through creating an iTunes Connect record of our app, and it is assumed that you have already accomplished that ahead of this chapter. It is also assumed that you have an iTunes Connect role of either admin, technical, app manager, or developer.

Before we enter our metadata and upload our screenshots, the manual sequence is to first use Xcode to upload a new build to iTunes Connect, which will create a new prerelease version of your app. You can also opt to use Application Loader (http://help.apple.com/itc/apploader/) instead of Xcode, which we will cover in the next section.

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