App Center Blog

Microsoft //Build 2018: GitHub Integration, Faster DevOps, and New Distribution Features

May 15, 2018 May 15, 2018 05/15/18

James White

Last week we spent an exciting three days at Microsoft Build 2018, which took place at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle, WA. We'd like to thank those of you who attended, especially those who stopped by to say "hi" at our booth in the Expo hall; it was great to speak with so many of you. For those of you who were unable to ...

Microsoft and GitHub Present: A Solution for Mobile CI

May 7, 2018 May 7, 2018 05/7/18

Visual Studio App Center

Microsoft and GitHub are continuing to empower developers with great tools so they can ship high-quality apps faster and with greater confidence. The new Visual Studio App Center app in the GitHub Marketplace provides mobile developers with a powerful Continuous Integration (CI) experience tailored for GitHub users. With a CI solution at their...

Customize Your Workflow Notifications with App Center and Azure Logic Apps

April 27, 2018 Apr 27, 2018 04/27/18

Simina Pasat

Our customers love App Center because it provides them with a feature-rich Continuous Integration (CI) service that works for the most common scenarios. In many cases, developers need to extend a specific service or feature to make it fit into their existing workflow. As an API-first product, we try to either build these features, or provide ...

App Center: API-First CI/CD for iOS and Android App Development

April 5, 2018 Apr 5, 2018 04/5/18

Visual Studio App Center

It’s common for developers to use Visual Studio App Center alongside all the tools they love and rely on, and respecting those preferences and investments is central to the way we design and think about App Center. We hope to put the power to extend and flex your workflow back in your hands by exposing as much as possible through our public ...

Guest Blog | Playing in the Sandbox: How We Created Minecraft’s Multi-Platform Design

April 3, 2018 Apr 3, 2018 04/3/18

Visual Studio App Center

This is special guest post from Mark Grinols, a development lead on the Minecraft team at Microsoft. A key aspect of Minecraft that players love is the ability to play with family and friends on nearly any platform they choose. Offering this breadth of choice to hundreds of millions of players worldwide is a substantial engineering ...

The Ship List: App Center March 2018 Update

March 30, 2018 Mar 30, 2018 03/30/18

Visual Studio App Center

(image)   Spring has arrived in many places, and with it comes fresh new opportunities and ideas. As always, the Visual Studio App Center team is working on features and updates that will enable you to build better iOS and Android apps, as well as ship them faster and with greater confidence. This month, we have a few new releases to ...

Fast Meets Faster: Speed Up Your CodePush Workflow with the React Native Tools Extension for Visual Studio Code

March 23, 2018 Mar 23, 2018 03/23/18

Visual Studio App Center

Recently, we released CodePush functionality in the React Native (RN) Tools extension for VS Code. CodePush is a feature in Visual Studio App Center that allows React Native and Cordova developers to push updates instantly over-the-air to end users. This is the ideal solution for hot-fixing your app when waiting isn’t an option, as well as ...

Open for Feedback: Contribute Directly to Visual Studio App Center Product Documentation

March 14, 2018 Mar 14, 2018 03/14/18

John Wargo [MSFT]

To ensure Visual Studio App Center is as easy as possible to use, we've created a more direct feedback channel for building and publishing product documentation based on the great feedback we receive from you, our users. Open sourcing our product documentation is a natural extension of our App Center philosophy, which is open API, open source ...

App Center Errors: Monitoring and Keeping Your Xamarin Apps Healthy

March 12, 2018 Mar 12, 2018 03/12/18

Visual Studio App Center

Building and shipping a successful app is a challenge. Monitoring and keeping your app healthy is even more challenging and time-consuming. Once you ship your app into the wild, unexpected errors often occur as real users start engaging with it; staying on top of them is crucial to the success of your app and business. As a developer, you need...

App Center Errors: Monitoring and Keeping Your Xamarin Apps Healthy

March 12, 2018 Mar 12, 2018 03/12/18

Blanca Delgado Parra [MSFT]

Building and shipping a successful app is a challenge. Monitoring and keeping your app healthy is even more challenging and time-consuming. Once you ship your app into the wild, unexpected errors often occur as real users start engaging with it; staying on top of them is crucial to the success of your app and business. As a developer, you need...