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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

Setting up two-factor authentication for your CI


When uploading your builds to iTunes Connect using your CI platform (Jenkins CI or Bamboo, for instance), you will need to generate an application-specific password from Apple, as you won't be able to handle prompts to enter a dynamic code each time.

To generate an application-specific password, do the following:

  1. Go to appleid.apple.com/account/manage.
  2. Select the Generate Password link in the Security section.
  3. Enter a name for the new application-specific password and note down the password. Refer to the following screenshot:

  1. Set the application-specific password using the FASTLANE_PASSWORD environment variable.
  2. Generate a login session for your CI machine by running the following:
      fastlane spaceauth -u user@;email.com
  1. Set the generated token from the previous step to the FASTLANE_SESSION environment variable.