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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

Configuring fastlane


Great; we now have the team's project running smoothly on our computer, and we are ready to start contributing code. Realizing that our team's workflow isn't exactly efficient, we are going to take some initiative and introduce fastlane. In order to convince the rest of the team that this tool will change their world, we are going to first set it up over our forked project and demonstrate rather than theorize.

To initialize fastlane, in your project folder, simply type in the following:

fastlane init

The prompt will ask you for your Apple ID so that you can hook into iTunes Connect seamlessly through the command line. After you've gone through all the prompt questions, fastlane will create a fastlane directory and fetch all of your app metadata from iTunes Connect.

Note

You will need to ensure your Apple ID has been given the correct permissions to access the app your team is working on in the Apple developer portal.

The primary file we will be concerned with throughout this...