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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

Configuring Slack webhooks to connect to fastlane


If you don’t already have a Slack account and workspace, go ahead and create one by going to https://slack.com/. Once you've created your workspace and added a few channels, you will create an incoming webhook, which will expose a custom token for fastlane to leverage to post messages to specific channels.

Incoming webhooks are a simple way to post messages from external sources into Slack. They make use of normal HTTP requests with JSON payloads, which includes the message and a few other optional details. 

From either your Slack desktop app or via the website, once logged in, go to Custom Integrations | Incoming WebHooks to commence configuring and exposing our Webhook URL.

Following the instructions on the subsequent page, you should get a Webhook URL that you will need to note down, as we will be using it shortly. Feel free to customize the name and icons of your new webhook bot, if you want:

Now we have set up everything we need on Slack...