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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

Introducing frameit


frameit (https://docs.fastlane.tools/actions/frame_screenshots/), as introduced at the start of the chapter, wraps device frames around your generated screenshots to give you a polished and perfect set of screenshots that provide visual context and reference for your potential users on the App Store, and may also be used on your websites, emails, or other promotional marketing material. The following is the logo of frameit:

The full list of devices frameit supports can be found at https://github.com/fastlane/frameit-frames/tree/gh-pages/latest, and this list gets updated quite frequently.

Running a basic frameit command

Before running frameit, you will need to install a prerequisite helper utility called ImageMagick by running the following commands first:

brew update && brew install imagemagick

Now we are ready to see how frameit works by simply entering the following:

fastlane frameIt

We get a response that shows that fastlane is downloading the appropriate frames...