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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

Installing the Xcode command-line tools


The first thing we are going to do is make sure you have your Xcode command-line environment set up. You should already have Xcode installed, but we will need its associative command-line tools because of the GCC compiler (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Compiler_Collection).

Note

It is assumed that you have macOS Sierra installed, but if not, it will most likely work with older versions, though this is not guaranteed.

First, make sure you have the latest version of Xcode installed, which is Xcode 8 at the time of writing, by going to the App Store and seeing if any updates are available. Next, let's see if you already have the full Xcode package installed by typing the following in a Terminal:

$ Xcode-select -p

If you get back the full path to your Developer folder, as follows, you are already set and have the full Xcode package installed:

$ /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer

If not, let's get the latest version of the Xcode command-line tools...