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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

Publishing your plugin


Before you publish your plugin, beyond what we had just accomplished, you will also need to:

  • Add more defensive code to ensure you cover situations such as the user not having installed the Heroku cli, and perhaps also installing the cli plugin in that case
  • Add test cases to demonstrate you have covered multiple scenarios as part of your coverage, to make your plugin community-ready
  • Finally, ensure that you document your plugin comprehensively in the README.md file, similar to the following README of the prominent community plugin fastlane-cosigner: https://github.com/Mindera/fastlane-plugin-cosigner/blob/master/README.md

You have two options for publishing your plugin. The first (and recommended) way is via https://rubygems.org/, which entails:

  1. Creating an account at RubyGems.org.
  2. Running the following to generate a new plugin folder structure for you:
      fastlane add_plugin [name]
  1. Publishing your plugin to a GitHub repository.
  2. Updating the fastlane-plugin-plugin_name.gemspec...