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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

Accessing the fastlane documentation


Before we begin working with fastlane, it's important to point out where you can access the fastlane documentation. Make sure you bookmark docs.fastlane.tools (https://docs.fastlane.tools/) for future reference, as well as the project GitHub page at github.com/fastlane/fastlane, as they will both no doubt come in handy throughout this book as we work on our project. In particular, the following sub-sections will prove especially useful throughout this book:

  • docs.fastlane.tools/actions: A list of built-in fastlane actions. You can also type fastlane actions in the Terminal to get a list of all the pre-built actions and their associated details, right in the Terminal.
  • docs.fastlane.tools/codesigning/getting-started: A quick reminder page on how to work with provisioning profiles and certificates.  
  • docs.fastlane.tools/plugins/available-plugins: A list of all available plugins, some troubleshooting for popular plugins, and guidance on how to create your own plugins.

Additionally, you can also check out sample fastlane setups (https://github.com/fastlane/examples) from other companies, which you can refer to as you learn more about what each of the lanes and actions does and understand fastlane in greater detail.