In a [previous look at GitLab and fastlane], we discussed how fastlane now automatically publishes the Gitter Android app to the Google Play Store, but at GitLab, we live on [review apps], and review apps for Android applications didn't really exist... until [Appetize.io] came to our attention.
Just a simple extension of our existing .gitlab-ci.yml
, we can utilize
Appetize.io to spin up review apps of our Android application.
If you'd rather just skip to the end, you can see [my MR to the Gitter Android project].
Setting up Fastlane
Fortunately for us, fastlane has integrated support for Appetize.io, so all
that's needed to hit Appetize is the addition of a new lane
:
diff --git a/fastlane/Fastfile b/fastlane/Fastfile
index eb47819..f013a86 100644