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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):

Katz

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Table of Contents (27) Chapters

Title Page

Dedication

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Foreword

Contributors

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

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Index

Introducing cert

The cert is one-half of the code-signing process, working in tandem with the sigh (https://docs.fastlane.tools/actions/sigh), managing your development and distribution certificates, whereas sigh (https://docs.fastlane.tools/actions/sigh) takes care of managing the provisioning profiles. The first part of this chapter explained the process of managing certificates manually, and while it may not seem extremely cumbersome, the burden of effort does indeed add up.

Furthermore, certificates expire as profiles do, so providing other members of your development team with a way to automate the provisioning of certificates, as you do with provisioning profiles, ensures consistency and predictability universally, across the team and over time. The following is the logo of cert:

Usage

Like a sigh, cert also has a simple set of commands to work with. The most basic of those commands is to type fastlane cert. This will list and verify all the signing certificates on the machine, and output...