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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 7. Creating Our iOS and Android Apps with produce and supply

Now that we have our environment set up with the project, the first thing we are going to do is set up our project via iTunes Connect (https://itunesconnect.apple.com/login) and the Apple Developer Portal (https://developer.apple.com/). This chapter will set the framework for the rest of the book, especially the subsequent chapters where we start to work with certificates and provision our app. In this chapter, we are first going to demonstrate how a developer would go about registering a new device with Apple's Developer Program. To contrast it with this traditional workflow, we are then going to introduce you to the first fastlane action we will work with—produce (https://github.com/fastlane/fastlane/tree/master/create_app_online#readme). We will first show you how to make use of produce individually in the command line to not only register the app, but also work with metadata as you interface with the developer portal...