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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

Implementing a fastlane plugin


Before we look at third-party action plugins, we will quickly examine the structure of a built-in plugin; in fact, one we have already implemented previously, add_git_tag (https://github.com/fastlane/fastlane/blob/master/fastlane/lib/fastlane/actions/add_git_tag.rb). While we used it in the previous chapter, it helps to understand the inner workings of the plugin, as well as the available mandatory and optional parameters/arguments.

You can view documentation for a specific built-in plugin/action by calling fastlane action action_name; for instance:

$ fastlane action add_git_tag

This would return to Command Prompt:

Loading documentation for add_git_tag:

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|                                                   add_git_tag                                                   |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------...