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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 produce


produce (https://github.com/fastlane/fastlane/tree/master/create_app_online) provides developers with the ability to directly orchestrate the process of creating new iOS applications on the Developer portal, and iTunes Connect, all from within the command line. The following is the logo of produce:

This utility provides the ability for developers to create and register new apps on iTunes Connect/Developer portal, and register and modify application services, such as providing access to CloudKit, App Groups, and associate App Groups with the Apple Developer portal.

produce (https://github.com/fastlane/fastlane/tree/master/create_app_online) also supports multiple Apple accounts, storing and containing each set of credentials securely in the keychain.

Usage

The first half of this chapter outlined the process and workflow by which a developer would register an app on iTunes Connect, as well as select the various capabilities that the app will support. In this section, we are...