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A fastlane Framework is a mobile continuous delivery framework.
- Context:
- It can be a Mobile Release Automation Framework.
- It can be a Mobile Continuous Integration Framework.
- It can:
- automate tasks like testing, building, and signing.
- automate the building and packaging iOS apps producing .ipa files.
- automate the taking screenshots of your app across different screen types, sizes, and languages.
- automate deploying your mobile application to the Apple and Google app stores.
- automate the uploading the screenshots and metadata and the packaged files to iTunes Connect directly, bypassing Xcode.
- automate the and management of refreshing, renewing, repairing, and managing signing certificates, provisioning profiles, and push notification profiles.
- synchronize and sharing of your certificates and profiles efficiently across to other team members.
- automate the managing and onboarding testers using your app, through TestFlight.
- automate the running tests for your app.
- connect all build tools together.
- define multiple lanes for different needs.
- facilitate Jenkins Integration.
- ...
- …
- Counter-Example(s):
- See: Continuous Delivery System, GitLab CI, .IPA File.
References
2022
- https://www.runway.team/blog/fastlane-tips-and-tricks-top-fastlane-actions-and-how-to-use-them
- QUOTE: ... fastlane is a mobile release automation tool that helps you streamline tasks like testing, building, signing, and deploying your application to the Apple and Google app stores. fastlane actions are the scripts you can run to automate processes, and lanes allow you to create defined workflows tailored to your specific needs. ...
2021
- "CodeMagic vs fastlane: What are the differences?." Stackshare
- QUOTE: Developers describe CodeMagic as "Build, test and deliver mobile apps in record time". It builds and tests your app after every commit, notifies selected team members and releases to the end user. Automatically. On the other hand, fastlane is detailed as "Connect all iOS deployment tools into one streamlined workflow". fastlane lets you define and run your deployment pipelines for different environments. It helps you unify your app’s release process and automate the whole process. fastlane connects all fastlane tools and third party tools, like CocoaPods.
- CodeMagic and fastlane can be categorized as "Mobile Continuous Integration" tools.
- Some of the features offered by CodeMagic are:
- Use your preferred platform
- Replace manual intervention with automation
- Always up to date with the latest developer tools
- On the other hand, fastlane provides the following key features:
- Connect all build tools together
- Define multiple lanes for different needs
- Jenkins Integration
- fastlane is an open source tool with 29.8K GitHub stars and 4.65K GitHub forks. Here's a link to fastlane's open source repository on GitHub.
2021
- "What is fastlane? | Continuous Delivery for Mobile with fastlane."
- QUOTE: ... fastlane can be simply described as the easiest way to automate building and release your iOS and Android apps, via a suite of tools that can work either autonomously or in tandem to accomplish tasks such as:
- Automation of building and packaging iOS apps producing .ipa files
- Automation of taking screenshots of your app across different screen types, sizes, and languages
- Automation of uploading the screenshots and metadata and the packaged files to iTunes Connect directly, bypassing Xcode
- Automation of and management of refreshing, renewing, repairing, and managing signing certificates, provisioning profiles, and push notification profiles
- Synchronization and sharing of your certificates and profiles efficiently across to other team members
- Automation of managing and onboarding testers using your app, through TestFlight
- Automation of running tests for your app
- ...
- fastlane consists of the following family of tools, for both iOS and Android:
- QUOTE: ... fastlane can be simply described as the easiest way to automate building and release your iOS and Android apps, via a suite of tools that can work either autonomously or in tandem to accomplish tasks such as: