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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

Introducing match


When implementing match (https://docs.fastlane.tools/actions/match/) into your team's workflow, you will see how the new collective code signing process works effortlessly, in a scalable way, to deprecate the use of cert and sigh (in most cases).

The easiest way to see how these workflows work is by example. Let's get started. The following is the logo of match:

Create a private Git repository

Assuming you already have a team Apple ID, the next step is to create a private Git repository that will serve to host the profiles and certificates. For the purpose of this example, we are going to create a new, private repository in Bitbucket, which is free. If you don't already have an account, please create a Bitbucket account and create a repository, as follows:

You will then clone this project into a local project folder by entering the following (substitute YOURTEAM,YOURPROJECTNAME, and FOLDERNAME with your Bitbucket team name, project name, and project folder location, as appropriate...