Continuous Delivery for Mobile with fastlane

Learn continuous deployment and automation with code-signing, continuous testing, building, deploying, and releasing of your app.

Key Features
A practical guide on automating your mobile development pipeline with Fastlane, Jenkins, and Slack.
Build, test, run and deploy your mobile application release with this end to end guide.
Implement Continuous Integration, delivery, and deployment practices to optimize your application development workflow for faster and efficient release builds.
Book Description

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.

What you will learn
Harness the fastlane tools for the Continuous Deployment strategy
Integrate Continuous Deployment with existing Continuous Integration.
Automate upload of screenshots across all device screen-sizes
Manage push notifications, provisioning profiles, and code-signing certificates
Orchestrate automated build and deployments of new versions of your app
Regulate your TestFlight users and on-board new testers

Who This Book Is For
This book is intended for mobile developers who are keen on incorporating Continuous integration and deployment practices in their workflow.

Table of Contents
Introduction to fastlane and Continuous Deployment
Setting up fastlane and Our Sample Project
Manage Provisioning Profiles with sigh
Manage Code Signing Certificates with cert
Sync Profiles and Certificates with match
Manage Push Notification Profiles with pem
Creating Our iOS and Android Apps with produce and supply
Build and Package Apps for the App Store with gym
Distribute to Testers with TestFlight and Crashlytics
Review your App metadata with Precheck
Taking Localized Screenshots with snapshot
Put Our Screenshots Inside Frames with Frameit
Upload Screenshots and Metadata with deliver
Automate Unit Tests with scan
Integrating Git into the Fastlane Workflow
Creating and Using fastlane Action Plugins
Integrating Slack into the fastlane Workflow
Continuous Delivery Best Practices