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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

Summary


In this chapter, we started working with our first action, sigh (https://docs.fastlane.tools/actions/sigh/), to help manage our provisioning profiles. We delved into the process for creating and managing the different types of provisioning profiles the traditional way, before embarking on using sigh (https://docs.fastlane.tools/actions/sigh/) to generate and refresh our profiles seamlessly through the Command Prompt.

Working through the different parameters we could pass, we finally created our first Fastfile lane, a beta that will form part of the beta distribution deployment strategy of our Firefox for iOS application, in addition to downloading our provisioning profiles. In the next chapter, we will walk you through managing certificates using the cert.