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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 pem


The first half of this chapter explained what push notifications are, and the process by which a push notification is orchestrated from the provider/server, through the conduit that is APNs, and subsequently reaches the designated devices. The chapter has also illustrated how to enable push notifications manually via Xcode. This section will illustrate how pem can automate the process of push notifications and form part of the project workflow. You can either use the keyword pem, or the alias get_push_certificate. The following is the logo of pem:

pem (https://docs.fastlane.tools/actions/pem/) is one of the simplest of actions, yet it accomplishes a lot. Through a single command, pem is able to accomplish the following tasks:

  • Creating a new push certification
  • Creating a signing request
  • Downloading the appropriate certificate
  • Generating a new .pem file for uploading to the provider/server

Go ahead and enter the following in the project folder:

fastlane pem

Confirming a new push certificate...