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You're reading from Continuous Delivery for Mobile with fastlane Automating mobile application development and deployment for iOS and Android

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788398510

Length 346 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Swift

Tools

Android

Concepts

Application Development

Author (1):

Doron Katz

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface

1. Introduction to fastlane and Continuous Delivery FREE CHAPTER

2. Setting Up fastlane and Our Sample Project

3. Manage Provisioning Profiles with sigh

4. Manage Code Signing Certificates with cert

5. Sync Profiles and Certificates with match

6. Manage Push Notification Profiles with pem

7. Creating Our iOS and Android Apps with produce and supply

8. Build and Package Apps for the App Store with gym

9. Distribute to Testers with TestFlight and Crashlytics

10. Review Your App Metadata with precheck

11. Taking Localized Screenshots with snapshot

12. Put Our Screenshots Inside Frames with frameit

13. Upload Screenshots and Metadata with deliver

14. Automate Unit Tests with scan

15. Integrating Git into the fastlane Workflow

16. Creating and Using fastlane Action Plugins

17. Integrating Slack into the fastlane Workflow

18. Continuous Delivery Best Practices

19. Configurations, Tools, and Resources

20. Other Books You May Enjoy

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What push notifications are

Push notifications, or Apple Notification Services (APNs), are a mechanism for third-party developers to send notifications as packets of data to users who have their applications installed on their devices. Notifications display and notify the users, subtly, of important and time-sensitive news items. Displaying a transient bar in the top part of the screen, along with a nominated notification sound, notifications deliver a short message, as well as optional actions the users can take without being required to open the app.

Take a push notification from the Facebook Messenger (https://facebook.com). When a user sends a message to a friend, the friend receives a push notification with an excerpt of the message and a bell sound notifying the user. The following screenshot illustrates an icon when a new, unread notification is received, showing a badge-count on the top-right corner: