Visual Studio App Center and GDPR

Ian GeogheganJuly 26, 2018Jul 26, 201807/26/18

On the Visual Studio App Center team, our engineers are completely aligned with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which gives consumers better and more explicit control of data – especially their personal data.

Feature Flags Give Crash Reporting a Serious Boost

Visual Studio App CenterJuly 24, 2018Jul 24, 201807/24/18

Integrating feature flags with your App Center crash service allows you to reduce the impact of crashes. Such an integration makes investigating crashes quicker and easier and allows for almost immediate rollback of problematic features.

Improved App Distribution is Here: Redesigned Tester Experience, Distribution Statistics, and More

Garrett KnollJuly 16, 2018Jul 16, 201807/16/18

Getting your release installed on a user’s device is the most important part of the distribution process. We've been working on incremental improvements to our tester experience since launching App Center in 2017, but after months of interviews and feedback from hundreds of customers, we’ve completely overhauled the user experience and visual design for our tester install portal.

Visual UI Testing for Android Apps with Espresso and Visual Studio App Center

Visual Studio App CenterJuly 13, 2018Jul 13, 201807/13/18

This is a guest post from Daniel Puterman, engineering lead at Applitools. Suppose you’ve built a new Android app and want to build some visual test automation scripts to ensure that it appears correctly on the devices it might run on. Not all the Android devices out there — just the top 20 for now. Suppose further that your app isn’t ...

From Code to Google Play: Release your Apps Automatically with Continuous Delivery

Zhuming PanJuly 3, 2018Jul 3, 201807/3/18

We are embracing a world where thermostats automatically adjust and sprinklers automatically water, why shouldn’t your releases be automated? Continuous delivery is a natural extension of continuous integration. It allows you to develop faster, collect feedback earlier, and ultimately produce happier customers. We have received feedback from...