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deliver

Upload screenshots, metadata and your app to the App Store using a single command

deliver can upload ipa files, app screenshots and more to the iTunes Connect backend, which means, you can deploy new iPhone app updates using the command line.

Get in contact with the developer on Twitter: @KrauseFx

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Features • TestFlight • Installation • Quick Start • Usage • Can I trust deliver? • Tips • Need help?

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deliver is part of fastlane: connect all deployment tools into one streamlined workflow.

Features

• Upload hundreds of screenshots with different languages from different devices
• Upload a new ipa file to iTunes Connect without Xcode from any computer
• Update app metadata
• Easily implement a real Continuous Deployment process using fastlane
• Store the configuration in git to easily deploy from any computer, including your Continuous Integration server (e.g. Jenkins)
• Get a PDF preview of the fetched metadata before uploading the app metadata and screenshots to Apple: Example Preview
• Automatically create new screenshots with snapshot
• Upload new builds to the new Apple TestFlight

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Installation

Install the gem

sudo gem install deliver

Make sure, you have the latest version of the Xcode command line tools installed:

xcode-select --install

To create new screenshots automatically, check out my other open source project snapshot.

TestFlight

New: To upload builds to TestFlight, use the new pilot tool.

Upload a new build to Apple TestFlight use the following command:

deliver testflight

This will automatically look for an ipa file in the current directory.

deliver currently supports Internal Testers only.

Make sure to increase your build number before building and uploading your app.

More options:

Specify the ipa file, the Apple ID and app identifier to be used:

deliver testflight ./my_app.ipa -u felix@krausefx.com -a 862582703

To build and upload the ipa in one step, you can use shenzhen:

ipa build && deliver testflight

You can pass the "What to Test" value using the environment variable DELIVER_WHAT_TO_TEST:

DELIVER_WHAT_TO_TEST="Try the brand new project button" deliver testflight

Additional environment variables: DELIVER_BETA_DESCRIPTION, DELIVER_BETA_FEEDBACK_EMAIL.

Quick Start

The guide will create all the necessary files for you, using the existing app metadata from iTunes Connect.

• cd [your_project_folder]
• deliver init
• When your app is already in the App Store: y
• Enter your iTunes Connect credentials
• Enter your app identifier
• Enjoy a good drink, while the computer does all the work for you
• When it's a new app: n

From now on, you can run deliver to deploy a new update, or just upload new app metadata and screenshots.

Customize the Deliverfile

Open the Deliverfile using a text editor and customize it even further. Take a look at the following settings:

• ipa: You can either pass a static path to an ipa file, or add your custom build script.
• unit_tests: Uncomment the code to run tests. (e.g. using xctool). It is recommended to use fastlane for running tests.

Usage

Why should you have to remember complicated commands and parameters?

Store your configuration in a text file to easily deploy from any computer.

Run deliver init to create a new Deliverfile. You can either let the wizard generate a file based on the metadata from iTunes Connect or create one from a template.

Once you created your configuration, just run deliver.

All available commands with a short description can be found in Deliverfile.md.

Here are a few examples:

Upload screenshots to iTunes Connect

Remove the rest, and use just this format for your Deliverfile.

app_identifier "net.sunapps.1"
version "1.1"

screenshots_path "./screenshots"

The screenshots folder must include one subfolder per language (see Available language codes).

The screenshots are ordered alphabetically. The best way to sort them is to prepend a number before the actual screenshot name. You can also put Watch screenshots into this folder.

To let the computer create the screenshots for you, checkout this section of the README.

If you want to have the screenshots inside a device frame, with a background and a fancy label on top, you can use Sketch to App Store.

To download all existing screenshots, use deliver download_screenshots.

Update App description, keywords and more

If you used deliver init, take a look at the ./metadata/ folder, which contains your app description, keywords and app title. If you change the content of the files, it will get updated when you run deliver.

Upload a new ipa file with a changelog to the App Store

This will submit a new update to Apple

ipa do 
    system("ipa build")
    "./name.ipa"
end

changelog(
    "en-US" => "This update adds cool new features",
    "de-DE" => "Dieses Update ist super"
)

If you wish to skip automated submission to review you can provide --skip-deploy option when calling deliver. This will upload the ipa file and app metadata, but will not submit the app for review.

The changelog is only used for App Store submission, not for TestFlight builds.

It is recommended to use deliver in combination with fastlane to build the app using xcodebuild.

Upload a new ipa for TestFlight beta testers

In order to upload an .ipa file for Apple TestFlight you need to specify beta_ipa path in your Deliverfile

beta_ipa do 
  system("ipa build")
  "./name.ipa"
end

and provide --beta option when calling deliver. When running deliver with the --beta flag enabled, it will not upload new app metadata.

Implement blocks to run unit tests

If you're using fastlane, run tests and error blocks there.

If you only use deliver, you can use the following blocks:

unit_tests do
    system("xctool test")
end

success do
    system("Say 'success'")
end

error do |information|
    # custom exception handling here
    raise "Something went wrong: #{information['error']}"    
end

Read content from somewhere external (file, web service, ...)

description(
  "en-US" => File.read("description-en.txt")
  "de-DE" => open("http://example.com/app_description.txt").read
)

Build and sign the app

I'm using Shenzhen, but you can use any build tool or custom scripts.

ipa do
    # Add any code you want, like incrementing the build 
    # number or changing the app identifier
  
    system("ipa build --verbose") # build your project using Shenzhen
    "./AppName.ipa" # Tell 'deliver' where it can find the finished ipa file
end

Hide the iTunes Transporter log

By default, the transporter log is shown, to be fully transparent. If you prefer to hide it, you can use the following option in your Deliverfile to disable it for both the upload and the download of metadata:

hide_transporter_output

What is the Deliverfile?

As you can see, the Deliverfile is a normal Ruby file, which is executed when running a deployment. Therefore it's possible to fully customise the behaviour on a deployment.

All available commands with a short description can be found in Deliverfile.md.

Some examples:

• Run your own unit tests or integration tests before a deploy (recommended)
• Ask the script user for a changelog
• Deploy a new version just by starting a Jenkins job
• Post the deployment status on Slack
• Upload the latest screenshots to your server

For further actions, check out fastlane

Use the exposed Ruby classes

Some examples:

require 'deliver'

app = Deliver::App.new(app_identifier: 'com.krausefx.app')

app.get_app_status # => Waiting for Review
app.create_new_version!("1.4")
app.metadata.update_title("en-US" => "iPhone App Title")
app.metadata.set_all_screenshots_from_path("./screenshots")
app.upload_metadata!
app.itc.submit_for_review!(app)

FastlaneCore::ItunesSearchApi.fetch_by_identifier("net.sunapps.15") # => Fetches public metadata

This project is well documented, check it out on RubyDoc.

Credentials

A detailed description about your credentials is available on a separate repo.

Can I trust deliver?

###How does this thing even work? Is magic involved? 🎩###

deliver is fully open source, you can take a look at its source files. It will only modify the content you want to modify using the Deliverfile. Your password will be stored in the Mac OS X keychain, but can also be passed using environment variables. (More information available on CredentialsManager)

Before actually uploading anything to iTunes, deliver will generate a PDF summary of the collected data.

deliver uses the following techniques under the hood:

• The iTMSTransporter tool is used to fetch the latest app metadata from iTunes Connect and upload the updated app metadata back to Apple. It is also used to upload the ipa file. iTMSTransporter is a command line tool provided by Apple.
• With the iTMSTransporter you cannot create new version on iTunes Connect or actually publish the newly uploaded ipa file. This is why there is some browser scripting involved, using Capybara and Poltergeist.
• The iTunes search API to find missing information about a certain app, like the apple_id when you only pass the bundle_identifier.

Tips

fastlane Toolchain

• fastlane: Connect all deployment tools into one streamlined workflow
• snapshot: Automate taking localized screenshots of your iOS app on every device
• frameit: Quickly put your screenshots into the right device frames
• PEM: Automatically generate and renew your push notification profiles
• sigh: Because you would rather spend your time building stuff than fighting provisioning
• produce: Create new iOS apps on iTunes Connect and Dev Portal using the command line
• cert: Automatically create and maintain iOS code signing certificates
• codes: Create promo codes for iOS Apps using the command line
• spaceship: Ruby library to access the Apple Dev Center and iTunes Connect
• pilot: The best way to manage your TestFlight testers and builds from your terminal
• boarding: The easiest way to invite your TestFlight beta testers
• gym: Building your iOS apps has never been easier

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Available language codes

["da-DK", "de-DE", "el-GR", "en-AU", "en-CA", "en-GB", "en-US", "es-ES", "es-MX", "fi-FI", "fr-CA", "fr-FR", "id-ID", "it-IT", "ja-JP", "ko-KR", "ms-MY", "nl-NL", "no-NO", "pt-BR", "pt-PT", "ru-RU", "sv-SE", "th-TH", "tr-TR", "vi-VI", "cmn-Hans", "cmn-Hant"]

Use a clean status bar

You can use SimulatorStatusMagic to clean up the status bar.

Automatically create screenshots

If you want to integrate deliver with snapshot, check out fastlane!

More information about snapshot can be found on the Snapshot GitHub page.

Jenkins integration

Detailed instructions about how to set up deliver and fastlane in Jenkins can be found in the fastlane README.

Firewall Issues

deliver uses the iTunes Transporter to upload metadata and binaries. In case you are behind a firewall, you can specify a different transporter protocol using

DELIVER_ITMSTRANSPORTER_ADDITIONAL_UPLOAD_PARAMETERS="-t DAV" deliver

Limit

Apple has a limit of 150 binary uploads per day.

Editing the Deliverfile

Change syntax highlighting to Ruby.

Need help?

• If there is a technical problem with deliver, submit an issue.
• I'm available for contract work - drop me an email: deliver@krausefx.com

License

This project is licensed under the terms of the MIT license. See the LICENSE file.

This project and all fastlane tools are in no way affiliated with Apple Inc. This project is open source under the MIT license, which means you have full access to the source code and can modify it to fit your own needs. All fastlane tools run on your own computer or server, so your credentials or other sensitive information will never leave your own computer. You are responsible for how you use fastlane tools.