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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

2. Setting Up fastlane and Our Sample Project FREE CHAPTER

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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Beta testing tools

The two prominent tools for beta testing on iOS are TestFlight (https://developer.apple.com/testflight/) and Crashlytics (https://try.crashlytics.com/). There are other testing distribution tools, such as HockeyApp (https://www.hockeyapp.net/), worth mentioning (and, in fact, also compatible with fastlane), but for the purposes of this chapter, we are going to concentrate on the first two, starting with TestFlight.

Overview of TestFlight

TestFlight was one of the first over-the-air distribution services for testing mobile applications, starting out cross-platform back in 2010, supporting both Android and iOS. TestFlight was purchased by Apple back in 2014 and integrated as part of its development platform a few months later, with Apple removing support for Android.

TestFlight has always been a favorite amongst mobile developers. TestFlight is triggered by uploading a beta of your app to iTunes Connect and using the same portal for managing the testers of your app. Take a...