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Automatic Versioning for React Native Apps

Osama Qarem on April 18, 2020

Problem You need to update your app's version to 1.0.0: 1. You open up android/app/build.gradle to update the version and bump the buil...

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federazionekoinonie • Apr 5 '21 • Edited

Thank you: this helped me a lot in a project few months ago!

SOLVED ISSUE
I started a new react-native project with updated versions of softwares, and I faced following issue. When I execute:

fastlane add_plugin increment_version_name increment_version_code load_json

I get this error:

Seems like the plugin is not available on RubyGems, what do you want to do?
Looking for related GitHub issues on fastlane/fastlane...
˜/.rbenv/versions/3.0.0/lib/ruby/gems/3.0.0/gems/highline-1.7.10/lib/highline.rb:624:in `encode': \e[31m[!] no implicit conversion of Hash into String\e[0m (TypeError)
     from ˜/.rbenv/versions/3.0.0/lib/ruby/gems/3.0.0/gems/highline-1.7.10/lib/highline.rb:624:in `say'
     . . .
     from ˜/.rbenv/versions/3.0.0/bin/fastlane:23:in '<main>'

Googling a bit I found this: github.com/fastlane/fastlane/issue...
And effectively I have (now, for this project) ruby 3.0, not 2.6.5 anymore (I thinked was something related to upgrated OS from Mojave to Catalina, or to new Node.js...)
So I 'solved' by downgrading ruby to 2.7.2 and now it works like a charm again!

Sendy Putra • Mar 25 '21

Added too auto-changelog

npm install -g auto-changelog

and add to package.json script

"version": "auto-changelog -p"

thats will be automate create changelog after automate versioning

sinx • Aug 19 '20

Can't you use package['name'] in Fastline file? What is the reason chosing ENV[APP_NAME] over it?

Osama Qarem • Aug 20 '20

Good point! Thanks. I've updated the post!

The reason being is that I copied most of the fastfile for this post from a project I was working on where pacakge['name'] was different from the Xcode project name 😂

noonyfirstfence • Oct 23 '23

Very good, one issue I noticed as I currently only have Andorid not iOS and because the iOS function runs in Fastlane first it errors and stops the following Android function firing. I've modified it so that both functions run independently so that now if one fails the other still tries. Hope its helpful to anyone else using only one OS.

desc 'Bump build numbers, and set the version to match the pacakage.json version.'
lane :bump do
  begin
    inc_ver_ios
  rescue => error
    puts "Error in inc_ver_ios: #{error.message}"
  end
  begin
    inc_ver_and
  rescue => error
    puts "Error in inc_ver_ios: #{error.message}"
  end
end

Julien Coulaud • Apr 18 '20

What a coincidence, that is exactly what I was looking for and you just published it! Thx :)

Osama Qarem • Apr 18 '20

Happy it helped!

Victor Bruce • Apr 16 '21

Thank you very much for this wonderful guide.🙏🏾😊

Bill Lee • Aug 20 '20

This is great! I was using app.json for that. If I use your solution, do I need to remove the buildnumber and versioncode from app.json? Thanks!

Osama Qarem • Aug 20 '20

No strict rules here! The solution is customizable! Do what suits your needs and makes more sense to you 👍

Anwar Gul • Apr 18 '20

Great Work , If possible please do write on fastlane setup for react native.

Osama Qarem • Apr 19 '20

Thank you:)
I do have another guide. I hope you find it useful:
github.com/osamaq/reactnative-fast...

Anwar Gul • Apr 19 '20

Really Thank you so much.

aditya-axa • Jun 25 '20

This will have issue with xcode 11 as there is new variable need to use github.com/SiarheiFedartsou/fastla...

Sebastian Diaz • Oct 21 '20

Hi @osamaq ! I'll try this, it would be very useful. Thanks!
Do you know if it'll work exactly with Xcode 12? Thanks again.

Osama Qarem • Oct 22 '20

It does. I've used it many times while working with Xcode 12.0.1. have fun 👍

Ivan Avila • Dec 19 '20

Brother what a great contribution, even I can use the tags as source of truth for versioning system in my react native app and I can ignore versioning when publishing. Great post!