cux_ship_verify 1.7.0

Offline checks for App Store and Google Play release inputs: release-note length, screenshot sizes and transparency, required locales. No dependencies.

cux_ship_verify

Catches what the App Store and Google Play would otherwise reject after you have uploaded — a release note over the cap, a screenshot carrying an alpha channel, a missing iPad set, a listing field a few characters too long.

Runs offline, needs no credentials, and has no dependencies at all. That last part is the point: this belongs in your dev_dependencies so the checks run in your own test suite on every push, and what it drags into a contributor's lockfile matters.

dev_dependencies:
  cux_ship_verify: ^1.6.0

import 'package:cux_ship_verify/cux_ship_verify.dart';
import 'package:test/test.dart';

void main() {
  test('every changelog section fits both stores', () {
    expect(checkChangelogFile('CHANGELOG.md'), isEmpty);
  });

  test('the committed store tree would be accepted', () {
    expect(
      checkAppStoreTree(
        'store/appstore',
        requireScreenshotTypes: {'APP_IPHONE_67', 'APP_IPAD_PRO_3GEN_129'},
      ),
      isEmpty,
    );
  });
}

Why a test rather than a release-time check. Both stores enforce these limits after the artifact has been transferred and processed, which is far too late and often days later. A test fails on the push that introduces the problem, which is when the person who caused it is still looking at it.

requireScreenshotTypes is worth setting deliberately: a universal app needs an iPad set as well as an iPhone one, and Apple refuses the submission rather than the upload — so an absent set is invisible until review.

What else is in here

Two libraries that are the model these checks are built on, public because the uploading half of cux_ship reads them too:

Library	What it is
package:cux_ship_verify/release_notes.dart	The CHANGELOG.md parser. Finds a version's section and renders it as each store wants it — which is not the same text, because the filtering differs and the caps differ (Play 500, App Store 4000).
package:cux_ship_verify/metadata.dart	Loads and fully validates a store/appstore/ tree. The standing rule is present means owned: a file that exists replaces what App Store Connect holds, one that does not is left alone. That is what makes a partial tree safe to keep in a repository.

Also

cux_ship verify in the cux_ship CLI runs the same checks from the command line, for the moment before there is a test suite to put them in.

Licence

Apache-2.0. See LICENSE and the repository.