Automation and Continuous Delivery for iOS Apps using Fastlane tools. This was presented at FAYA, Technopark, Trivandrum on 01-Jun-2016. Fastlane is a collection of utilities that work beautifully together without friction. It's now part of Fabric, Twitter's developer tools and development lead by Felix Krause (Twitter: @krausefx) and many other amazing developers. iOS developers typically spend several times managing provision files, certificates and so many mundane and boring stuffs they've to do with Apple Developer portal and tools. Fastlane tools can help you to right from creating a project to deploy your app to AppStore. Fastlane has an amazing ability to pass the result of data around each of the utilities in your pipeline. Also the actions helps you to customize and extend your fastlane utilities. Fastlane often come pre-installed with popular continuous integration servers like CricleCI. Utilities like match can help you a lot to manage your certificates and provision files by securely shari across computers. This works quite handy with with CI servers as well.

1. Fastlane - Automation &
Continuous Delivery for
iOS Apps
Sarath C,
Architect, Experion Technologies

2. @sarat
Architect, Experion Technologies

3. State of iOS Development at
Experion Technologies

4. • We use Swift for all new projects
• We have delivered about 15 iOS projects developed
using Swift in past 2 years
• All our developers are trained to work with Swift
• We still use Objective-C — mostly for legacy code
base
• Modern tools and workflows to deliver projects

5. tools & workflows

6. the best tools are…

7. something that works well
for your team

9. what’s fastlane?

10. fastlane lets you define and
run your deployment pipelines
for different environments

11. It helps you unify your app’s
release process and
automate the whole process

12. fastlane connects all
fastlane tools and third
party tools, like CocoaPods

13. lanes

14. lanes are typically deployment pipelines
and the recipe is yours

32. tools

33. upload screenshots, metadata and
your app to the App Store using a
single command.

34. automate taking localized
screenshots of your iOS app on
every device

35. quickly put your screenshots into
the right device frames

36. automatically generate and renew
your push notification profiles

37. because you would rather spend
your time building stuff than
fighting provisioning

38. create new iOS apps on iTunes
Connect and Developer Portal using
the command line

39. automatically create and maintain
iOS code signing certificates

40. the easiest way to run tests of
your iOS and Mac app

41. building your iOS app has never
been easier

42. easily sync your certificates and
profiles across your team using
Git

43. the best way to manage your
TestFlight testers and builds from
your terminal

44. instantly create a simple signup
page for TestFlight beta testers

45. a Ruby library to access the Apple
Developer Center and iTunes
Connect

46. demo

47. build. test. screenshots.
sign. deliver

48. gem install fastlane

49. fastlane init

51. 👈

52. 👈

53. how authentication
works?

54. snapshot init

55. 👈

56. 👈

57. 👈

58. 👈

59. match

60. $ match appstore

61. $ match development

63. HockeyApp

64. desc "Deploy a new version to Hockey App"
lane :hockey do
match(type: "development")
gym(scheme: "fastlane-demo") # Build your
app - more options available
hockey(
api_token: API_TOKEN
public_identifier: APP_ID,
notes: "Changelog",
notify: '0',
notes:git_branch + ' (Uploaded via
fastlane).'
)
end
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65. running…

66. stats

68. TestFlight

69. lane :appstore do
increment_build_number
cocoapods
scan
snapshot
sigh
deliver
sh "./customScript.sh"
slack
end

70. tips

71. ruby --version
ruby 2.0.0p648 (2015-12-16 revision 53162) [universal.x86_64-darwin15]

72. $ xcode-select --install
$ brew install rbenv
$ rbenv install -l
$ rbenv install 2.2.5
$ rbenv install 2.3.1
$ rbenv global 2.3.1

73. $ vim ~/.zshrc
RBENV_VERSION="system"
export PATH="~/.rbenv/shims:/usr/local/bin:/usr/
sbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/sbin:~/.rvm/bin"
eval "$(rbenv init -)"

74. .gitignore
make sure you don’t include fastlane
generated files in your repo

75. gitignore.io
pro tip: use it in commandline

76. frameit
you need to download the templates from
apple’s website. tool will point you to
right place for the first time setup.

78. app icons
Your app icons needs to be configured
properly to upload to App Store.
use utilities like makeappicon.com to
generate required images size.

79. CI Environment
Variables
It’s not a good idea to embed the secret
keys and files within the code/repo.
Use environment variables, settings and
integration features of CI Server to secure
your data

80. use private repos
there are several bots pulling out keys and
content from the public github repo.
don’t put your projects at risk.
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81. auto build number
increment
to automate the build number increment, you
have to set the version in the project’s
build settings
https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/qa/
qa1827/_index.html

82. TestFlight Build# + 1
increment_build_number({
build_number:
latest_testflight_build_number + 1
})

83. change log from commits
# Collects commits since your last tag and
returns a concatenation of their subjects and
bodies
changelog_from_git_commits

84. Actions
This is an ultimate guide to bring best out of
your fastlane pipeline. This guide contains
documentation on fastlane actions to extend
fastlane tools.
github.com/fastlane/fastlane/blob/
master/fastlane/docs/Actions.md

85. match
A handy utility to securely share your
certificates and provision files across the
systems. Quite useful when you work with CI
servers and multiple machines

86. where to go from
here?

87. • fastlane.tools/
• github.com/fastlane/fastlane
• github.com/fastlane/examples
• github.com/fastlane/fastlane/blob/
master/fastlane/docs/Actions.md
what’s next?

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