Use fastlane for automated locale screenshots

[jaiakash]

The project has screenshots of the app in various languages. But it did not have in the Hindi language.
So I would like to add screenshots in hindi language.

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[david-allison]

I have a few issues here now I've had time to get into our infra around these screenshots:

Uploading Infra
The screenshots are uploaded by https://github.com/ankidroid/Anki-Android/blob/master/tools/google-play.py, but this doesn't seem to have been maintained in quite a while.

• Our new screenshots by Mani are not consistent with this script, and would be wiped
• The script may not work
• The original upload (MD screen shots #3897) appears to be a lot of work
• Each screenshot update will bloat the git repo

Manual work
I don't think we want to do this manually, because keeping the screenshots in-line is a lot of effort

• It's a lot of manual maintenance to get two people's devices to look similar, load the appropriate cards etc..
• It makes it a lot harder to change content if we want better screenshots

Conclusion (I'd like to see what other maintainers say) @mikehardy @Arthur-Milchior:

I think we should log an issue to improve this screenshot mechanism. I'd expect that we'd use fastlane or similar automation. I don't think we should be spending time on manual screenshots

[mikehardy]

Fastlane, it's the answer. I've got a few projects that use it now, mostly iOS but I finally did an Android one with ABB files and it's the ticket. It's a big job though, the whole package and upload and store presence system needs an overhaul and these would just be a content part of It

[mikehardy]

To elaborate a little on the fastlane comment - fastlane can actually drive the app and take screenshots even, so the work here would actually be to create locale-specific collections for each language that wanted screenshots such that there was a demonstration card, maybe via creating strings crowdin can consume and then some process to create collections from those strings, then doing the necessary glue/binding to fastlane to load the collection per-locale and drive the app to the card and take the screenshot into the locale folder, followed by using fastlane's store presence features to upload screenshots while pushing releases.

It's not a small job but fastlane owns this space now (via community consensus + raw effort in the fastlane project to make it the best) and that's how I'd design it out if I was asked for an ideal future state

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