Deploy an iOS app to testflight using Travis CI

.travis.yml

---
language: objective-c
before_script:
- ./scripts/travis/add-key.sh
after_script:
- ./scripts/travis/remove-key.sh
after_success:
- ./scripts/travis/testflight.sh
env:
  global:
  - APPNAME="NAME_OF_THE_APP"
  - 'DEVELOPER_NAME="iPhone Distribution: NAME_OF_THE_DEVELOPER (CODE)"'
  - PROFILE_UUID=PROVISIONING_PROFILE_UUID

README.md

Deploy an app automatically to testflight using travis ci.

1. Copy the .travis.yml into your repo (replace app name, developer name and provisionin profile uuid)
2. Create the folder "scripts/travis"
3. Export the following things from the Keychain app
4. "Apple Worldwide Developer Relations Certification Authority" into scripts/travis/apple.cer
5. Your iPhone Distribution certificate into scripts/travis/dist.cer
6. Your iPhone Distribution private key into scripts/travis/dist.p12 (choose a password)
7. Execute travis encrypt "KEY_PASSWORD=YOUR_KEY_PASSWORD" --add
8. Execute travis encrypt "TEAM_TOKEN=TESTFLIGHT_TEAM_TOKEN" --add
9. Execute travis encrypt "API_TOKEN=TESTFLIGHT_API_TOKEN" --add
10. Copy add-key.sh, remove-key.sh and testflight.sh into scripts/travis
11. Commit

add-key.sh

security create-keychain -p travis ios-build.keychain
security import ./scripts/travis/apple.cer -k ~/Library/Keychains/ios-build.keychain -T /usr/bin/codesign
security import ./scripts/travis/dist.cer -k ~/Library/Keychains/ios-build.keychain -T /usr/bin/codesign
security import ./scripts/travis/dist.p12 -k ~/Library/Keychains/ios-build.keychain -P $KEY_PASSWORD -T /usr/bin/codesign
mkdir -p ~/Library/MobileDevice/Provisioning\ Profiles
cp ./scripts/travis/profile/* ~/Library/MobileDevice/Provisioning\ Profiles/

remove-key.sh

security delete-keychain ios-build.keychain
rm -f ~/Library/MobileDevice/Provisioning\ Profiles/*

testflight.sh

#!/bin/sh
if [[ "$TRAVIS_PULL_REQUEST" != "false" ]]; then
  echo "This is a pull request. No deployment will be done."
  exit 0
fi
if [[ "$TRAVIS_BRANCH" != "master" ]]; then
  echo "Testing on a branch other than master. No deployment will be done."
  exit 0
fi

# Thanks @djacobs https://gist.github.com/djacobs/2411095

PROVISIONING_PROFILE="$HOME/Library/MobileDevice/Provisioning Profiles/$PROFILE_UUID.mobileprovision"
RELEASE_DATE=`date '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'`
OUTPUTDIR="$PWD/build/Release-iphoneos"

echo "********************"
echo "*     Signing      *"
echo "********************"
xcrun -log -sdk iphoneos PackageApplication "$OUTPUTDIR/$APPNAME.app" -o "$OUTPUTDIR/$APPNAME.ipa" -sign "$DEVELOPER_NAME" -embed "$PROVISIONING_PROFILE"

RELEASE_NOTES="Build: $TRAVIS_BUILD_NUMBER\nUploaded: $RELEASE_DATE"

zip -r -9 "$OUTPUTDIR/$APPNAME.app.dSYM.zip" "$OUTPUTDIR/$APPNAME.app.dSYM"

echo "********************"
echo "*    Uploading     *"
echo "********************"
curl http://testflightapp.com/api/builds.json \
  -F file="@$OUTPUTDIR/$APPNAME.ipa" \
  -F dsym="@$OUTPUTDIR/$APPNAME.app.dSYM.zip" \
  -F api_token="$API_TOKEN" \
  -F team_token="$TEAM_TOKEN" \
  -F distribution_lists='Internal' \
  -F notes="$RELEASE_NOTES" -v

I am having the same problem with not being able to create the provisioning profiles directory. Anyone know how to do this now?

@hpogosyan - did you get this working?

@spenrose - see the comment by kaspermunck.

I was also having this issue:

cp: ./scripts/travis/profile/[NAME].mobileprovision: No such file or directory

In my case, my .gitignore file had a rule to ignore directories called "profile".

I added the following and committed the directory which fixed the issue:

!scripts/profile

First of all. Thanks a lot. I think that continuous delivery of iOS apps will be a mainstream thing very soon.

Might I suggest moving this to a genuine repo so that it can be worked on in a more productive way?

@hpogosyan did you find a solution?

I'm also getting this error
cp: ./scripts/travis/profile/*: No such file or directory

With the last update of Travis CI machines to Mavericks you should add this lines to add-key.sh before creating keychain:

security default-keychain -s ios-build.keychain
security unlock-keychain -p travis ios-build.keychain

If you have ! in your password, don't forget to escape it… :)

I have forked this and updated it so it works on Travis-CI (We're using it here at Wrapp now). I have also updates the README, hopefully it's easier to get it up and running :)

You find my fork at:
https://gist.github.com/JagCesar/a6283bc2cb2f439b3a1d

When you unlock the keychain it maybe locked later on due to a timeout.
You can prevent this by adding security -v set-keychain-settings -lut 86400 ios-build.keychain in add-key.sh.
This will set the keychain timeout to 24 hours and that should be enough to build your app.

Special Thanks to Jay Zeschin (http://modeset.com/what-we-know/2013/03/11/jenkins_keychain_timeouts)

To anyone getting that cp: ./scripts/travis/profile/*: No such file or directory error - I think there should be a "step 2a." above which should be: mkdir scripts/travis/profile then copy your appropriate Ad Hoc/Enterprise .mobileprovision file into that directory and commit it.

Thank you @johanneswuerbach for this tutorial and thank you @davebcn87 for your addition!

@kaspermunck I met an issue with @crazycabo ,and i follow your answer to do it.But it still failed.

./scripts/sign-and-upload.sh
/Users/travis/build.sh: line 41: ./scripts/sign-and-upload.sh: Permission denied

$ chmod +x scripts/add-key.sh
$ chmod +x scripts/remove-key.sh

and the certificate has been import success
1 certificate imported.
1 certificate imported.
1 identity imported.

I don't know how to do next , please help me !

The chmod +x worked for me and I'm not even deploying to testflight.
Thanks man

You might be interested in trying www.buddybuild.com as a simple alternative to scripting a basic CI.

@fuer4869 I met an issue with you,how to do next?

i dont think the test flight upload works due to the apple deal, can anyone confirm this?

Is Travis CI capable of building and shipping my Ionic 2 app to Testflight / Hockey or direct install on the iPhones of my organisation? Thank you

Hey @joshk! Any updates on https://gist.github.com/johanneswuerbach/5559514#gistcomment-858581 ?
Thanks!

AWESOME!!

Hey,
I am working with this and not able to get how to create a TESTFLIGHT_API_TOKEN. Can someone please explain how we can generate that directly from developer.Testflight "https://developer.apple.com/testflight/" site. Thanks!!

Are you based in Berlin by chance?

Hi,
for deploying over github, how to write travis script?