Generating iOS code signing certificates and provisioning profiles

fastlane contains a set of command-line tools. One of them is fastlane match, which allows sharing a code signing identity with your development team.

In this recipe, you will learn how to leverage fastlane match to create signing certificates for your apps and store them in a Git repository.

Getting ready

Before following along with this recipe, you should have completed the previous recipes in this chapter: Registering your iOS app on App Store Connect and Installing and configuring fastlane.

How to do it...

You will now create a new Git repo and use fastlane match to retrieve and store your certificates in your repository. Follow these steps:

1. Create a private Git repository at github.com. You can find the details of the procedure at https://docs.github.com/en/github/getting-started-with-github/create-a-repo.
2. In the ios directory of your project, from the Terminal, type the...