Up until now, we have been working with the various fastlane actions to create and distribute certificates and provisioning profiles and to communicate with iTunes Connect and the Developer portal through the command line. We will finally start to implement the real workhorse actions from this chapter, starting with gym (https://docs.fastlane.tools/actions/gym/), an action that will help us automate the process of building and packaging our app.
The actions so far have helped us set the stage by ensuring all our configurations are in place for this chapter and beyond, where we will work on the building and packaging aspects as well as the generation of snapshots in the subsequent chapters.
This chapter will focus on building and packaging our iOS app into a .ipa file and demonstrate how we would package it for local distribution...
