[FIXED] Importing and calling platform-specific lanes from general platform in Fastlane

Issue

I have a react-native app, with both ios and android directories inside a common directory. I want to be able to release (execute a lane) iOS or Android independently, so I setup fastlane init in each of the platform dirs (which created two fastlane/Fastfile in each platform dir). Android Fastfile roughly contains:

platform :android do
  lane: release_android do
    ...
  end

AND iOS:

platform :ios do
  lane: release_ios do
    ...
  end

Now I also manually created a fastlane/Fastfile file in the common containing dir that looks like this:

import '../ios/fastlane/Fastfile'
import '../android/fastlane/Fastfile'

lane :release_all do
  release_android
  release_ios
end

However, when I run fastlane release_all from the main dir, it breaks with Could not find action or lane 'release_android'.

Any idea what I'm doing wrong here? Could it not be possible to call a platform-specific lane from a general lane?

Environment

fastlane 1.96.0

Solution

This isn't the ideal solution as it ends up wrapping your lane execution in another lane but we do this in your equivalent to release_all, however I wonder if it would allow running those in parallel:

sh "fastlane ios beta"
sh "fastlane android beta"

Answered By - Chris LeBlanc
Answer Checked By - Senaida (JavaFixing Volunteer)