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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

Summary


This chapter was all about optimization, and, for us, being able to optimize our workflow by integrating various Git commands to automatically pull and commit, as well as push out new tags. In our coding exercises, we also learned how to bump our version number, as well as how to use a few new actions to help us create a dynamic changelog for our TestFlight distribution. While we very briefly looked at some of the action plugins, we are going to dive deeper into understanding how to read fastlane action code, as well as creating our own plugins.

In the next chapter, we will dive deeper into plugins, the third-party plugin community, and creating our own action plugin.