After preparing your Ionic Cordova projects you can now install Fastlane on your machine and initialize it for both your iOS and Android projects.
fastlane
CLIThe work of Fastlane is done by a CLI tool (unsurprisingly) called fastlane
:
CLI for ‘fastlane’ - The easiest way to automate beta deployments and releases for your iOS and Android apps
fastlane
can be conveniently installed using “Homebrew” (If you dont have Homebrew yet, follow it’s installation instructions on brew.sh): brew cask install fastlane
It downloads and then installs fastlane
to /Users/username/.fastlane/
. It also installs some gems
, you maybe can derive that one is for manipulating .xcodeproj files and one for interacting with Google APIs.
After adding Fastlane to your path in .bash_profile
(see output of the previous command), restart your terminal and execute fastlane --version
to confirm the working installation:
(If this doesn’t work as described for your local setup and environment you might want to have a look at the official fastlane
documentation which offers alternative installation methods.)
Now that the fastlane
CLI is installed and working, you can continue to initialize Fastlane in your project.