Using CI/CD pipelines for developing mobile apps

In this section, we’re going to discuss how to set up CI/CD pipelines in GitLab for mobile application development. There are many benefits to automating the mobile development process at the packaging stage, most notably the fact that packaging a mobile application involves multiple certificates, entitlements, and configuration files, which take a substantial amount of time to assemble when packaging an application. In addition to that, the testing process around mobile applications can be manual and tedious. By automating things such as screenshots across multiple devices, we can shave hours off a developer’s workload.

This section assumes you have all the requirements listed next configured and working already. We’re not going to cover how to do mobile development, but rather how to automate your mobile development practices using Fastlane and GitLab.

Requirements

For this section, you will need the following...