Automated Deployment with Fastlane

Slide for my talks on Fastlane for MyCocoaheads December Meetup

Transcript

1. Automated Deployment with Fastlane Automate all the things! by Faiz Mokhtar
4. It’s a set of tools that helps you simplify & automate your app deployment process.
6. The ‘lanes’ in Fastlane.
7. Installation & Quick Start $ cd [your_project_folder] $ fastlane init $ sudo gem install fastlane --verbose • To install • To setup • Then you’ll just have to follow the setup assistant.
8. fastlane folder inside your project directory
9. inside fastlane folder…
10. Available commands $ fastlane lanes $ fastlane list $ fastlane actions @ action [action_name] $ fastlane docs $ fastlane new_action
11. Fastlane Actions • There are a lots of predefined fastlane actions that you can use. • Most of the actions are well explained in the docs. • Some of the useful ones; ◦ update_info_plist ◦ increment_build_number & increment_version_number ◦ crashlytics ◦ dsym_zip ◦ xcodebuildtool ◦ cocoapods
12. Configuring Fastfile • Decides on what builds you’ll need. ◦ App Store releases ◦ Beta build for Testflight/ Fabric ◦ In-house distribution ◦ Testing purpose • Some Fastlane examples setup.
13. It’s demo time! (https://github.com/faizmokhtar/fastlane-demo)
14. Meh. This is much harder. Why should I use it?
15. Most of these are just a first time setup. I guarantee you will save your time.
16. and also… • You will save days of preparing app submission, creating screenshot & releasing the app • You don’t have to rely on one person to release on updates. • Increase software quality with more frequent and smaller releases.
17. Still not sure what fastlane is? • Check Fastlane repository on Github • Great sets of documentations to get started
18. Thank you! twitter: @faizmokh github: faizmokhtar