To get the most out of this book

You are encouraged to follow the examples sequentially, from Chapter 1, Introduction to fastlane and Continuous Delivery, to the final chapter, using the sample project and code.

The Chapter 2, Setting Up fastlane and Our Sample Project, covers setting up your environment, installing fastlane, and any other prerequisite tools.

You will also need to have an active Apple Developer account, which you can get from developer.apple.com.

Download the example code files

You can download the example code files for this book from your account at www.packtpub.com. If you purchased this book elsewhere, you can visit www.packtpub.com/support and register to have the files emailed directly to you.

You can download the code files by following these steps:

Log in or register at www.packtpub.com.
Select the SUPPORT tab.
Click on Code Downloads & Errata.
Enter the name of the book in the Search box and follow the onscreen instructions.

Once the file is downloaded, please make sure that you unzip or extract the folder using the latest version of:

WinRAR/7-Zip for Windows
Zipeg/iZip/UnRarX for Mac
7-Zip/PeaZip for Linux

The code bundle for the book is also hosted on GitHub at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Continuous-Delivery-for-Mobile-with-fastlane/tree/master. In case there's an update to the code, it will be updated on the existing GitHub repository.

We also have other code bundles from our rich catalog of books and videos available at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/. Check them out!

Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

CodeInText: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "Open Client.xcodeproj in Xcode, then switch to the Fennec scheme."

A block of code is set as follows:

export_options(
  method: "ad-hoc",
        provisioningProfiles: { 
    "com.doronkatz.firefox": "Provisioning Profile Name"
  },
  manifest: {
    appURL: "https://yourapp.com/yourapp.ipa",
  },
  thinning: "<thin-for-all-variants>"
)

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

fastlane init

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see onscreen. For example, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in the text like this. Here is an example: "You are also able to create new signing identities from this dialog screen by selecting the Create button."

Warnings or important notes appear like this.

Tips and tricks appear like this.