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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

Chapter 10. Review Your App Metadata with precheck

 A new addition to the fastlane family, precheck (https://docs.fastlane.tools/actions/precheck) is a nifty utility that helps developers avoid having to deal with the pain of having their apps rejected by Apple during their submission reviews. Through an ever-adapting set of community-driven App Store rules, precheck checks app metadata and iTunes Connect app descriptions for blacklisted words, such as profanity, trademarks, or copyrighted keywords, giving developers a second pair of eyes prior to going through the gauntlet of the app review process.

By the end of this chapter, you will have learned how to add precheck to your workflow to process through your app metadata and verify that there are no keywords that will break Apple's App Store compliance policies, including:

  • Product bug mentions
  • Profanity
  • Broken URL links
  • Placeholder text, future features mentioning
  • Copyright date errors
  • Customizable word list checking

We will be working with precheck...