You can probably follow along without being a shell scripting guru, but you can also look up what you need at Bash Beginners Guide or Advanced Bash Scripting Guide. This tutorial assumes you have some basic knowledge of Unix scripting.
You’ll use a tool called ImageMagick, Terminal and Xcode to write a script that will automatically overlay the build version and a “debug” or “beta” ribbon to your app’s icon. This tutorial will have you writing only bash shell scripts. Would you believe you aren’t going to write a single line of Swift in this tutorial? No, seriously, and you won’t be writing any Objective-C either. This tutorial will show you how to do that, and perhaps introduce you to a few lesser-known features of Xcode.
So, you’ve finished a beta version of your app, and finally there are some fresh eyeballs and brains helping you test and perfect the app that’s going to make you rich…or at least fatten your portfolio.īut wouldn’t it be helpful if testers had an easy way to check which build version of the app they have?