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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

Summary


In this chapter, you mastered distributing your app to testers using TestFlight and Crashlytics. You first learned how to distribute a new build manually on TestFlight via the developer portal, as well as how to manage your testers manually, before leveraging fastlane to automate and make this process a lot easier.

You were also introduced to boarding, along with Pilot, to help onboard and add new TestFlight users effortlessly. You finally added a Crashlytics lane to your Fastfile, to be able to distribute to Crashlytics.

In the next chapter, we will take a look at one of fastlane's newest actions, precheck (https://docs.fastlane.tools/actions/precheck/). It is quite specialized, as it will go through your project before you submit to the App Store and verify your metadata, and it does not break Apple's compliance policies for common issues like using trademark names.