fastlane-plugin-icon_versioning

icon_versioning plugin

Getting Started

This project is a fastlane plugin. To get started with fastlane-plugin-icon_versioning, add it to your project by running:

fastlane add_plugin icon_versioning

About icon_versioning

Overlay build information on top of your app icon. Based on original work by Krzysztof Zabłocki (https://github.com/krzysztofzablocki/Bootstrap).

Improvements

Over the original implementation by Krzysztof, I also added:

• automatic font scaling and blur spreading that ensures a consistent look between different sized icons
• text lines preservation that doesn't break long lines to prevent unexpected results
• possibility to specify custom text and text color
• text margins and band height that remain responsive to different icon sizes

Integrating

This copies the specified .appiconset folder to a new folder named OriginalName-Versioned.appiconset and overlays the specified text over the icon images inside it.

To automatically run this on every build, you can add a new Run Script Build Phase before the Compile Sources one and point it to a script that calls this plugin:

(Having a script file instead of the actual plugin call makes it easier to debug, change and review it, as explained in this article)

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# optional, to prevent versioning for release builds
if [[ $CONFIGURATION == "Release" ]]; then
    exit 0
fi

# optional, to fix fastlane warnings that show up in the Report navigator
export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8

# make sure Bundler is found
export GEM_HOME=~/.gems
export PATH=$PATH:$GEM_HOME/bin

export FASTLANE_DISABLE_COLORS=1 # optional, to remove from the build log the ANSI escape sequences that enables colors in terminal
export FASTLANE_SKIP_UPDATE_CHECK=1 # optional, to make sure that the versioning finishes as fast as possible in case there is an available update
export FASTLANE_HIDE_GITHUB_ISSUES=1 # optional, to make sure that the versioning finishes as fast as possible in case the plugin crashes

bundle exec fastlane run version_icon appiconset_path:'/path/to/AppIcon.appiconset' text:'1.2.3 (11.03.2018)\n[ead76f1] {Staging}\nmaster'

Make sure the script is executable by running chmod +x /scripts/icon_versioning.sh

In order for the new versioned icon to be actually used by the app, you have to point the Asset Catalog App Icon Set Name (ASSETCATALOG_COMPILER_APPICON_NAME) build setting to this new versioned one:

Lastly, you should ignore the -Versioned folders using:

/path/to/*-Versioned.appiconset/*

If running it automatically on every build is not what you need, you can also call it from wherever you want, as long as you specify the correct parameters.

In the end, it should look like this:

Example

Check out the example Fastfile to see how to use this plugin. Try it by cloning the repo, running fastlane install_plugins and bundle exec fastlane test.

You can also check out the example Xcode project to see it in action, and all the required changes here.

Run tests for this plugin

To run both the tests, and code style validation, run

rake

To automatically fix many of the styling issues, use

rubocop -a

Issues and Feedback

For any other issues and feedback about this plugin, please submit it to this repository.

Troubleshooting

If you have trouble using plugins, check out the Plugins Troubleshooting guide.

Using fastlane Plugins

For more information about how the fastlane plugin system works, check out the Plugins documentation.

About fastlane

fastlane is the easiest way to automate beta deployments and releases for your iOS and Android apps. To learn more, check out fastlane.tools.