Introduction
When you are working on different projects sometimes you need to use different IDE’s. You need to find a way to archive a project in the fastest way.
One of such ways is by using the xcodebuild archive
command
Basic outline of the process
- Open Terminal: Open the Terminal application on your Mac.
- Navigate to Project Directory: Use the cd command to navigate to the directory containing your Xcode project.
- Run
xcodebuild archive
: Once you’re in the project directory, you can runxcodebuild archive
with the appropriate parameters to build your project.
Example:
xcodebuild archive -scheme YourSchemeName -archivePath ~/Desktop/YourAppName.xcarchive
Another way is by integrating fastlane into your workflow:
Outline of the process
Install Fastlane: If you haven’t already installed Fastlane, you can do so using RubyGems, which is the Ruby package manager:
brew install fastlane
Navigate to Project Directory: Open Terminal and navigate to the directory containing your Xcode project. Initialize Fastlane (Optional): If you haven’t initialized Fastlane in your project yet, you can do so by running:
fastlane init
Create a lane for archiving: Open your Fastfile
located in the fastlane
directory of your project, and add a new lane for archiving:
lane :archive do
gym(
scheme: "YourSchemeName",
output_directory: "/path/to/your/archive/directory",
output_name: "YourAppName"
)
end
Run the archive lane: Once you’ve defined the archive lane, you can run it using the following command:
fastlane archive