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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

An overview of how to design your App Store product page screenshots


Before embarking on how to integrate frameit to automate the process of beautifying our screenshots, we will first demonstrate the mainstream approach to edited screenshots. In this section, we will demonstrate one approach, which involves the use of one of the most popular contemporary designing tools, Sketch, to crop and frame screenshots around devices to create a more realistic and contextual visual impression. You could substitute the techniques with Adobe Photoshop or any other comparable graphic-authoring tool.

We have already learned how to generate screenshots in the previous chapter, both through snapshot, as well as manually via Xcode Simulator, and thus we assume you already have a set of screenshots to work with in this section.

Beautifying screenshots

Uploading your screenshots directly from the iOS Simulator can seem quite bland, and thus garnishing them with additional visuals, such as device frames, provides...