App Center Blog

Scaling Your Distribution Workflow with Shared Groups and AAD support

September 21, 2018 Sep 21, 2018 09/21/18

Zakeel Muhammad

Both shared groups and AAD support are features that empower you to build great apps, with the included bonus of not worrying about how you will manage each and every one of your testers. Both features can play a big role in making beta distribution and tester management a more scalable practice.

Announcing Extension-less XCUITest Support in Visual Studio App Center Test for iOS 12

September 12, 2018 Sep 12, 2018 09/12/18

Glenn Wester

Each year Apple releases a new version of  iOS and the App Center team works tirelessly to support it in our device lab. Keeping this tradition App Center is pleased to announce launch day support for iOS 12 in App Center.

The Ship List: App Center August Update

September 5, 2018 Sep 5, 2018 09/5/18

James White [MSFT]

The Visual Studios App Center team has been hard at work, continuing to ship new features and improvements to App Center this summer. Here are some of the newest offerings to come from the App Center team over the last month.

Mobile CI/CD 101

August 28, 2018 Aug 28, 2018 08/28/18

Visual Studio App Center

The mobile CI/CD approach allows you to simplify and accelerate the process of creating a quality product. Cloud Mobile CI/CD pipeline based on App Center allows to “configure-and-forget” environment for build, test and distribute. In this article we explained mobile development pitfalls and how to avoid them with automation.

Top 5 Mobile App Security Failures and How To Prevent Them

August 14, 2018 Aug 14, 2018 08/14/18

Visual Studio App Center

All developers must take into consideration functionality, user experience and security when they build and update their mobile apps. These issues are not insurmountable and can be addressed by increasing a focus on secure mobile development best practices with developer training resources, improved security hygiene and the addition of automated security testing approach into the dev pipeline to establish a strong security baseline.

Visual Studio App Center Test: Android 9 Pie Support, 3000+ Real Devices, Improved Test Notifications and More

August 9, 2018 Aug 9, 2018 08/9/18

Glenn Wester

We are excited to announce App Center has same-day Test framework and device support for Android P. If automated UI testing is not already part of your development pipeline, App Center can help.

VIDEO: Continuous Integration and Delivery Cloud Services for iOS and Android

August 9, 2018 Aug 9, 2018 08/9/18

Visual Studio App Center

App Center is a modular platform that lets you pick and choose the services you need to continuously build, test, release and monitor apps for Android, iOS, macOS, really whatever platform you choose.

Publish Enterprise Apps with Visual Studio App Center and Intune

August 1, 2018 Aug 1, 2018 08/1/18

Girish N

Publishing and distributing line of business apps in an enterprise, can be challenging for both developers and admins. Developers often use custom build tools, manually test across multiple devices and upload apps to an internal company site for distribution. Microsoft Intune offers the company portal for simple and secure distribution of apps...

Visual Studio App Center and GDPR

July 26, 2018 Jul 26, 2018 07/26/18

Ian Geoghegan

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

July 24, 2018 Jul 24, 2018 07/24/18

Visual Studio App Center

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.