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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 2. Setting Up fastlane and Our Sample Project

In the previous chapter, we got a bird's-eye view of whatfastlane (https://docs.fastlane.tools/) is, along with all the actions that it encompasses. In the next chapter, we will begin to explore each action in isolation in greater detail, but before showing you how you can include fastlane as part of the toolchain, and rather than describe its abstract functionality, this chapter will explain the concepts in context through real-life scenarios.

We will project the narrative of you being in a start-up, working on a real-life app, which is in fact, a popular open source app, Firefox for iOS (https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-ios). We will be referring to this code base and app throughout the book to illustrate how you, as a developer, will vastly enhance your development environment and workflow through the use of fastlane.

The rest of this chapter will be dedicated to:

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