This document discusses continuous integration (CI) options for iOS development. It compares using Xcode's GUI on a Mac workstation versus using the xcodebuild command line tool with CircleCI. It also introduces the fastlane tool for automating builds and deployments, and mentions using CircleCI with a Mac VM for running fastlane and distributing via an Apple Enterprise program.
This document contains code for a Jenkins pipeline that defines stages for compiling, testing, packaging, deploying, and smoke testing a build. It also contains code to send notifications to Typetalk if the build fails. Additional code shows how to fetch pull request branches from a Git remote and check if a pull request is open for a given branch.