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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

The process of creating an iOS


We will first go through the project development workflow, starting with this section, which will focus on the creation of your App ID using produce.

Registering your App ID with produce

Before we create our certificates and provisioning profiles, the first thing we are going to do is register an App ID in the Developer Portal, under Certificates | Identifiers | Profiles.

The first thing this screen will ask you for is your App ID name. Essentially, this is the name of your app, which in our case would be Firefox for iOS.

Along with the App ID name, we need to create a Bundle ID, a period-delimited identifier that is unique. The most common approach is to use a reverse-style domain name, say com.packt.fastlane, with the last part being the name of the app, and the second-to-last part being either a category, sub-company, or company name, depending on your organizational structure.

Finally, before completing this screen, you are asked to select the appropriate app...