Github Releases

How to deploy an app to Github Releases using codemagic.yaml

Publishing GitHub releases is available for GitHub repositories only.

Publishing happens only for successful builds triggered on tag creation and is unavailable for manual builds.

1. Create a personal access token in GitHub as described here.
2. Add the personal access token as an environment variable with the name GITHUB_TOKEN in the environment section.
3. In the triggering section, configure triggering on tag creation. Don’t forget to add a branch pattern and ensure the webhook exists.

triggering:
  events:
    - tag

4. Add the following script after the build or publishing scripts that publish the artifacts with tag builds. Edit the placeholders like your application name and the path to build artifacts to match your setup.

   #!/usr/bin/env zsh
   
   # Publish only for tag builds
   if [ -z ${CM_TAG} ]; then
   echo "Not a tag build will not publish GitHub release"
   exit 0
   fi
   
   # See more options about `gh release create` usage from GitHub CLI
   # official docs at https://cli.github.com/manual/gh_release_create
   
   gh release create "${CM_TAG}" \
       --title "<Your Application Name> ${CM_TAG}" \
       --notes-file changelog.md \
       path/to/build-artifact.ipa \
       path/to/build-artifact.apk
   
   # Note that you don't need to include title and changelog if you do not want to.
   # Any number of artifacts can be included with the release.