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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 17. Integrating Slack into the fastlane Workflow

An important component of fastlane is being able to notify the appropriate stakeholders of the various actions and their outcomes, such as when you have received successful or problematic unit test results, when a new commit has just occurred, or when a new distribution is about to be released internally or externally. Either way, fastlane supports a more transparent and collaborative continuous delivery workflow, and in this chapter, we are going to focus on one of the most popular contemporary software collaboration tools, an instant-messaging client, and the platform known as Slack (https://slack.com/).

This chapter will focus on how to integrate Slack at appropriate key points of our workflow, to enable our stakeholders to become more informed of the progress of our development and delivery processes. The objective of this chapter is to learn how to integrate various Slack actions into our existing fastlane workflow so that we can...