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Apple App Store Integration CI/CD Component

Leveraging the new CI/CD Components capabilities, a component should be created to pair with the existing Apple App Store integration to make releasing to Test Flight and the App Store easy to set up in CI.

Considerations

  1. The integration works best with Fastlane installed, so the component should be able to check for Fastlane and install it if it's not installed. Fastlane requires Ruby, so it would need to be able to check for and install Ruby as well.
  2. The release process would call either upload_to_testflight or upload_to_app_store. Both actions have a long list of parameters that we could choose to support a subset of to start, with a couple required (i.e. ipa, pkg, etc.)
  3. A Fastfile would need to be included as part of the component (example here), a release specific lane would be created for each part of this component.

Component Specification

spec:
  inputs:
    ipa: # required input for build artifact
    build_number: null # optional build number
---
# content of the component
my-job:
  script: fastlane release_to_appstore # custom fastlane action that calls into `upload_to_app_store`