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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

What are certificates?


If you are familiar with certificates you can go ahead and skip this section, but for those who want to know a bit more about the mechanics of how certificates work, before we get started with how to use cert (https://docs.fastlane.tools/actions/cert), we will give a basic overview of what certificates are, as well as how they work with the provisioning profiles, which we covered in the previous chapter.

As mentioned in the previous chapter, code signing provides assurances to both Apple and the end users that the app has been untampered with. Through the combination of certifying and provisioning for either the App Store or to distribute via TestFlight, the app comes from the original developer and has not been compromised by the addition of malicious software. 

When you distribute your app to the App Store, Apple, in fact, re-signs it with their certificate before reaching the App Store, and your code-signing signature is used to ensure integrity is maintained so that...