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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

Summary


In the last two chapters, we completed our first milestone of code signing our app in one lane, beta, through the use of cert and sigh, to manage our certificates and provisioning profiles. This chapter has really honed how easy it is through fastlane, as compared to the traditional approaches of managing certificates. It not only reduces the effort and burden, but makes onboarding new developers extremely easy while maintaining consistency across the development team when it comes to code signing.

In the next chapter, we are going to work through our final code-signing lane, match (https://docs.fastlane.tools/actions/match/), which takes managing certificates and provisioning profiles to even more collaborative convenience through the ability to sync those vital assets across teams easily, the way developers share code through Git.