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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 4. Manage Code Signing Certificates with cert

We were not able to complete our first task in the previous chapter using sigh (https://docs.fastlane.tools/actions/sigh), as we lacked a certificate to codesign. In this chapter, we will complete the circle through the use of a related action, cert (https://docs.fastlane.tools/actions/cert), which will help us in managing our code-signing certificates, and will complete our exercise from the previous chapter and code sign our app.

While match (https://docs.fastlane.tools/actions/match) is normally the most appropriate tool for developers to automate and share code-signing credentials, and while it takes care of all the required certificate and profiles, working with cert (https://docs.fastlane.tools/actions/cert) allows you to exercise greater control over the certification process with your apps, and this chapter will serve as an insightful way to understand how certification works.