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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

Introducing cert


The cert is one-half of the code-signing process, working in tandem with the sigh (https://docs.fastlane.tools/actions/sigh), managing your development and distribution certificates, whereas sigh (https://docs.fastlane.tools/actions/sigh) takes care of managing the provisioning profiles. The first part of this chapter explained the process of managing certificates manually, and while it may not seem extremely cumbersome, the burden of effort does indeed add up.

Furthermore, certificates expire as profiles do, so providing other members of your development team with a way to automate the provisioning of certificates, as you do with provisioning profiles, ensures consistency and predictability universally, across the team and over time. The following is the logo of cert:

Usage

Like a sigh, cert also has a simple set of commands to work with. The most basic of those commands is to type fastlane cert. This will list and verify all the signing certificates on the machine, and output...