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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

Introduction


With a brief introduction to fastlane in the first chapter, along with setting up our environment and project in the subsequent chapter, we are now ready to work on effectively contributing to the Firefox for iOS (https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-ios) project, having just joined the team.

The first thing we will need to do after getting access to a project is to make sure our provisioning profiles are set; a manual and cumbersome process to have to deal with, especially when working in teams and onboarding new members. It has no doubt caused a lot of sighs from developers, which brings us to our first lane, appropriately namedsigh (https://docs.fastlane.tools/actions/sigh).

The objectives of this chapter are to work through the problems of creating, downloading, renewing, and repairing provisioning profiles (https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/IDEs/Conceptual/AppStoreDistributionTutorial/CreatingYourTeamProvisioningProfile/CreatingYourTeamProvisioningProfile...