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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

Chapter 16. Creating and Using fastlane Action Plugins

In the chapters leading up to this one, we have explored numerous fastlane actions that have helped us automate our continuous delivery workflow significantly, cherry-picking various actions to integrate from Git to building, testing, and publishing our apps. fastlane is an open platform, and as such, if you cannot find a specific action, you can always create one.

fastlane encourages third-party developers to contribute to the creation of plugins that benefit the community, but even if it doesn't benefit a broader user base, you can always create your own actions for your own project and team's benefit. In this chapter, we are going to first explore the existing plugin ecosystem before learning how to add an existing plugin into our existing app, then learn how to create our own simple plugin.

The objective of this chapter is to learn the basics of how plugins work and how to implement, as well as author and submit, new plugins.

 In this...