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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

Enabling push notifications


In order to set up push notifications on your app, there are a few things you will need. The provisioning aspect is the first criteria, whereby the app will need to be provisioned and registered with the APNs to receive push notifications. This is done via Xcode, which will be discussed shortly.

The second criteria is a server or provider (as we mentioned in the previous section) tasked with sending push notification payloads to the APNs conduit, which will then orchestrate the messages to the devices. This chapter will not focus much on the setup of a server, as it is beyond the scope of the book; however, there are some recommended free platforms that do provide push notification capabilities, including Firebase (https://firebase.google.com/) and Urban Airship (https://www.urbanairship.com/).

Another recommended tool to use for testing is the open source NWPusher (https://github.com/noodlewerk/NWPusher), which will allow you to send JSON payload packets in a test...