AWS has announced that AWS CodeBuild now supports the use of Fastlane for macOS environments. Fastlane is an open source tool suite designed to automate various aspects of mobile application development.

AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed build service in the cloud that compiles your source code, runs unit tests, and produces artifacts that are ready to deploy. CodeBuild eliminates the need to provision, manage, and scale your own build servers. It provides prepackaged build environments for popular programming languages and build tools such as Apache Maven, and Gradle, and scales automatically to meet peak build requests.

CodeBuild provides preconfigured environments for supported versions of Java, Ruby, Python, Go, Node. js, Android, . NET Core, PHP, and Docker. You can also customize your own environment by creating a Docker image and uploading it to the Amazon EC2 Container Registry or the Docker Hub registry.

To use CodeBuild, developers provide a build project consisting of information about how to run a build, including where to get the source code, which build environment to use, which build commands to run, and where to store the build output. The build environment is a combination of operating system, programming language runtime, and tools that CodeBuild uses to run a build.

CodeBuild downloads the source code into the build environment and then uses the build specification to run a build.
If there is any build output, the build environment uploads its output to an S3 bucket.

Fastlane provides mobile application developers with a centralized set of tools to manage tasks such as code signing, screenshot generation, beta distribution, and app store submissions. It integrates with continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) platforms and supports both iOS and Android development workflows.  The addition of support for Fastlane builds on the facilities introduced in CodeBuild for macOS which was introduced in August 2024. At that point, the only way to use Fastlane in the system was to manually install Fastlane in a custom build environment. The new facility means Fastlane is installed by default. 

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