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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

Manifest files/app thinning


App thinning (https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/IDEs/Conceptual/AppDistributionGuide/AppThinning/AppThinning.html) is a feature that was added back in iOS 9 as a way of optimizing the installation of iOS apps on the user's device, "by tailoring app delivery to the capabilities of the user's particular device, with minimal footprint" (Source: Apple). That is, developers can distribute apps that will result in faster downloads and leave more space available on the end user's devices.

App thinning automatically detects the device type and downloads only the relevant content for that device, at the correct resolution, from the resource catalog.

Slicing is an aspect of app thinning which delivers a different version of the app bundle for different target devices, as opposed to encompassing all the types of target devices within the one ipa. By slicing the file via iTunes Connect, the user will get the image resources according to their device...