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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 introduced a new concept and method of managing code signing, using a collective code sharing workflow that replaces the silos of development certificates and provisioning profiles that individual developers use (as we have relied on in the previous chapters) with a singular code signing certificate, private key, and profile that is stored in a private Git repository and shared among the development team.

match (https://docs.fastlane.tools/actions/match#readme) has allowed us to deprecate calling sigh and cert explicitly in our lane in lieu of this one command that not only manages the entire code signing set of assets but encrypts and synchronizes the assets into the Git repository automatically, meaning that onboarding new developers is extremely effortless.

In the next chapter, we are going to complete the first block of chapters that focus on the management of certificates and profiles by taking a look at pem (https://docs.fastlane.tools/actions/pem#readme)...