Learn Microsoft Visual Studio App Center: With Xamarin Forms - Softcover

Mukherjee, Sunny

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1484243811 ISBN 13: 9781484243817

Publisher: Apress, 2019

Synopsis

Use Visual Studio App Center with Xamarin Forms to set up a DevOps CI/CD pipeline, set up your mobile builds on either iOS or Android, set up Android and Apple certificates and provisioning profiles, distribute your app to your developers and testers, capture analytics and crashes from your users, communicate to your users with push notifications, and run UI tests on the Microsoft cloud. You will see how to automate and manage the life cycle of your apps through Microsoft's Cloud Service, with a focus on integrating App Center into your Xamarin Forms apps with clear, practical examples. As you follow along with the sample app, you will see how easy it is to configure your builds, to test the sample app on various iOS and Android devices on the App Center cloud, and to distribute your app to real devices.  

Whether you are a developer on a small team or a startup or an architect in a large organization curious about the benefits of Visual Studio App Center, after finishing this book, you will be confident in setting up App Center on your next mobile project. Come join me on this journey through Visual Studio App Center with Xamarin Forms.

What You Will Learn

Create a DevOps CI/CD pipeline for your mobile app on both iOS and Android devices

• Save money without buying multiple iOS and Android devices and instead run cloud UI tests
• Stay informed about build successes and failures by integrating App Center with Slack
• Set up groups and add team members to your groups on App Center
• Distribute your app to your team on either iOS or Android devices
• Capture important user events in your code and report to App Center
• Give a friendly user experience by handling crashes gracefully and reporting to App Center
• Keep and analyze your user’s data on Azure by setting up automatic data export to Azure
• Communicate with your users using iOS and Android notification services from App Center
• Give your users a better experience by sending silent push notifications 
• Include custom data in your push notifications

Who This Book Is For

Xamarin Forms mobile developers with previous experience using the Xamarin framework. 

About this title

About the Author

Sunny Mukherjee is a lead developer. He has close to 15 years of experience in IT where he has worked on multiple platforms, including web, desktop, mobile, and cloud. He has worked in multiple industries, including healthcare, finance, retail, and defense. His other expertise includes software architecture, business plans and presentations, idea brainstorming and pitching, and fictional works. In his free time, he loves reading about astronomy, following the latest science and technology news, riding his bike, traveling to the beach, taking photographs, cooking, meditating, working out, and watching movies. He routinely shares important articles on his LinkedIn profile about .NET, new technologies, new discoveries, and career tips.

From the Back Cover

Use Visual Studio App Center with Xamarin Forms by setting up a DevOps CI/CD pipeline, set up your mobile builds on either iOS or Android, distribute your app to your developers and testers, capture analytics and crashes from your users, communicate to your users with push notifications, and run UI tests on the Microsoft cloud. You will see how to automate and manage the life cycle of your apps through Microsoft's Cloud Service, with a focus on integrating App Center into your Xamarin Forms apps with clear, practical examples. The book starts by showing you how to sign up for App Center and how to create builds, integrate analytics, and capture crashes. Along the way you will set up distribution groups and configure the build in detail. Here, the author will guide you with setting up Apple certificates and provisioning profiles. Finally, you discover how to set up push notifications in the Xamarin Forms app and test it on various iOS and Android devices on the App Center cloud.

Whether you are a developer on a small team or a startup or an architect in a large organization curious about the benefits of Visual Studio App Center, after finishing this book, you will be confident in setting up App Center on your next mobile project. Come join me on this journey through Visual Studio App Center with Xamarin Forms.

You will:

• Create a DevOps CI/CD pipeline for your mobile app on both iOS and Android devices
• Save money without buying multiple iOS and Android devices and instead run cloud UI tests
• Stay informed about build successes and failures by integrating App Center with Slack
• Set up groups and add team members to your groups on App Center
• Distribute your app to your team on either iOS or Android devices
• Capture important user events in your code and report to App Center
• Give a friendly user experience by handling crashes gracefully and reporting to App Center
• Keep and analyze your user’s data on Azure by setting up automatic data export to Azure
• Communicate with your users using iOS and Android notification services from App Center
• Give your users a better experience by sending silent push notifications 
• Include custom data in your push notifications

Edition details

• Publisher: Apress
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1484243811
• ISBN 13: 9781484243817
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 330