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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

Introducing sigh


Armed with an understanding (or recap) of what provisioning profiles are and how they work, let's introduce the first lane, sigh (https://docs.fastlane.tools/actions/sigh). Sigh takes the process we mentioned in the previous section, that of creating a developer provisioning profile, and, simply put, makes the process more straightforward and automated. The following is the logo of sigh:

sigh (https://docs.fastlane.tools/actions/sigh) will help you create, download, and repair provisioning profiles through the command line, bypassing Xcode and/or the Apple developer portal, supporting development, ad hoc, Enterprise, and App Store provisioning profiles. As the official website outlines, sigh will, in fact, support the following tasks that would otherwise be mundane and in many cases laborious:

  • Downloading the latest provisioning profile for your app
  • Renewing a provisioning profile when it has expired
  • Repairing a provisioning profile when it is broken
  • Creating a new provisioning...