Book Image

Continuous Delivery for Mobile with fastlane

By : Doron Katz
Book Image

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

Foreword

Being an iOS developer for the last 6 years, I have spent a lot of time dealing with code signing, preparing localized screenshots, and doing manual deployments. After working on my first Ruby on Rails application, I saw how easy the release of software could be, so I decided to build fastlane.

fastlane solves all of the problems around iOS tooling that larger mobile development teams experience as they grow—automatic building, code signing, screenshots, push certificates, and others. Before fastlane, most companies maintained their own shell scripts, resulting in breaking builds every other month due to changes in the Xcode build system.

In this book, Doron gives an introduction to fastlane, and how you can use it to optimize your mobile development process. While fastlane offers documentation online, this book is a great resource to get started with mobile app automation using fastlane. Doron did a great job going through the available fastlane features and how you can make use of them.

 

Felix KrauseFounder of fastlane