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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

Chapter 15. Integrating Git into the fastlane Workflow

Up until now, we have been using Git to access the sample code repository of this project. We have also more recently incorporated Git with Jenkins CI Jenkins CI (https://jenkins.io/) as part of our fastlane workflow, listening for new branch commits. In fact, even within our sample project, Carthage leverages Git as part of its dependency management to download all the dependency libraries.

Our focus has been on working with the more common actions that correlate to specific tasks, from provisioning to generating screenshots, and from building to publishing, with the primary objective of making our lives as developers significantly more convenient through a systematic continuous delivery workflow. In this chapter, we are going to actually integrate Git into our fastlane more intimately.

In this chapter, you will learn how to integrate various Git actions into your existing fastlane lanes to further enrich the developer processes and experiences...