1. Setup Xcode project and create respective App ID, Provisioning Profiles
2. Create New App in iTunes Connect
3. Setup and install FastLane to Application
4. FastFile Configuration

Step 1: Setup Xcode project and create respective App ID, Provisioning Profiles

• Create a new Xcode Project
• Go to Developer Account and create App Id for the project
• Create provisioning profiles for both Development and Distribution using the created App Id for the App
• After creating the Provisioning Profiles, go to General Tab of the app Target and uncheck Automatically Manage Signing
• Select Signing Debug (Development) and Signing Release(Distribution) profiles
• If Provisioning profiles are not installed in Key-chain, click Download Profile, it will display the profiles available in Developer portal

2. Create New App in iTunes Connect

• Go to iTunes Connect and create a new app with the bundle identifier of the app created

3. Setup and install FastLane to Application

• To Setup fastlane to App, follow the steps in Fastlane docs for iOS `https://docs.fastlane.tools/getting-started/ios/setup/` and for swift `https://docs.fastlane.tools/getting-started/ios/fastlane-swift/`
• First go into the project directory from terminal and Install fastlane. If need try command with sudo

gem install fastlane -NV

• Then setup Fast lane for swift using

 fastlane init swift

• After this setup is complete, there will be four options available as below

1. 📸 Automate screenshots
2. 👩‍✈️ Automate beta distribution to TestFlight
3. 🚀 Automate App Store distribution
4. 🛠 Manual setup - manually setup your project to automate your tasks

• Select option 4 , during the set up it will prompt with some instructions twice, press Enter for those two and the setup will be completed
• When the setup is complete, Open the file located at
  

  [projectDirectory]/fastlane/swift/FastlaneRunner/FastlaneRunner.xcodeproj to configure your lanes in Fastfile.swift

  ⁃ Edit the custom Lane function as follow

func customLane() {
	buildIosApp(scheme: "BlogApp") // Your app Name
	uploadToTestflight(username: "iosapp@example.com”) // Your Apple ID
}

⁃ Then enter the command fastlane customLane to upload the build to TestFlight
⁃ This command will generate the .ipa file required for uploading the app to TestFlight
⁃ After generating the ipa file, the it will prompt to select the appropriate team if there are multiple teams associated with your iTunes Connect
⁃ Select the team under which the app has been created and press Enter
⁃ The generated build will be uploaded to TestFlight for testing