No matter the project or stack we strive to automate the testing and deployment pipeline as much as possible. Mobile applications are no different, but do come with their own set of challenges between iOS and Android. We are happy to have a fully automated solution for both platforms that pieces together several fastlane tools to achieve an elegant solution.
We can share how all these pieces fit together to create a robust mobile app pipeline.
As our pipelines evolved to support many different environments we felt we needed a bit more automation around our alpha builds. Builds past alpha were generally tagged releases with human written changelogs, but alpha builds were bleeding edge right from our main branch for internal use. We wanted to provide testers with a bit more context on what changed in each build without them needing to go hunt for information.
This is our journey of a bit of automation to plug into Firebase App Distribution to provide automatic changelogs for our builds.