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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 5. Sync Profiles and Certificates with match

Following sigh (https://docs.fastlane.tools/actions/sigh) and cert (https://docs.fastlane.tools/actions/cert/), which automate the process of managing provisioning profiles and certificates, respectively, we are now going to show you a new approach to iOS code signing that goes beyond the two we just mentioned. That is, sharing one code signing identity across your entire team, simplifying code signing set up and minimizing code signing issues.

This is a radical change from the way code signing has traditionally been done (whereby each developer has her or his own code signing identity), in which developers share a common set of code signing identities that are accessed via a shared Git repository. This modern code signing management approach promises to make credential sharing more streamlined, easier to manage, and with fewer issues going forward. 

This chapter provides a new and even easier solution for managing your provisioning profiles...