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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 supply


While this chapter has focused heavily on iOS, fastlane does indeed also have an Android counterpart to produce called supply, which can be found at https://docs.fastlane.tools/. The following is the logo of supply:

Like the action produce, supply provides developers with the capability to update and retrieve Android apps (although it cannot create new apps) on the Google Play Store, as well as upload new APK builds to the store. In addition, supply is capable of uploading app icons, promotional graphics, and screenshots.

If you have not already done so, the first step in this process is to register as a Google developer, as explained next.

Setting up a Google Play developer account

To be able to publish Android apps on the Google Play Store, you must first register as a developer. There is a one-off registration fee of $25 in order to create your own account.

To register as a Google Play Store developer, you need to do the following:

  1. Begin by signing in with your Google account...