Create build & release pipeline for the Chronicles iOS app

[HaakonSvane]

Package / App

MAD Chronicles

Description

Chronicles is starting to take shape and would benefit greatly from its own place in our App Store.
Our other apps use DevOps for building and releasing, but seeing as we already run most of our repo scripts in GitHub using Actions, it is a good idea to follow this trend.

Getting Chronicles to App Store requires:

1. Building the App using XCode. This can be done in a GitHub action
2. Sending the .ipa to App Store under the Equinor org.

As for WHEN to build and release, I think it is nice to do this on every package release. In our package.json file is a command release:all. This triggers changesets to release all packages to the npm registery. The execution of this command is a good time to trigger the XCode build and release action.

Some considerations:

• The agent must be running mac os since it requires XCode.
• The job should be run independently of the other build and release jobs so that it does not block the execution of the others. Perhaps a separate action is best.

Alternatives

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Other info

Some reasons why it is wise to start looking at this immediately:

• @marinalinn has joined our teams(s)! I am sure she would appreciate seeing this app in action. Also, welcome Marina 🎉
• Physical human touch is a very important aspect when creating a great mobile UX and this will be lost when using the dev simulator.