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Open for Feedback: Contribute Directly to Visual Studio App Center Product Documentation
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 SDKs, and an open source CLI. Our public document repository also enables us to integrate with a feedback system based on GitHub issues. Providing Feedback If you have product feedback or questions for us, including how to use or configure an App Center capability, click...
App Center Errors: Monitoring and Keeping Your Xamarin Apps Healthy
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 to have insight into the cause of these issues and how frequently they're happening. Visual Studio App Center recently shipped a feature that gives you just that awareness. We're excited to announce the release of the Errors feature for iOS and Android apps built using...
App Center Errors: Monitoring and Keeping Your Xamarin Apps Healthy
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 to have insight into the cause of these issues and how frequently they're happening. Visual Studio App Center recently shipped a feature that gives you just that awareness. We're excited to announce the release of the Errors feature for iOS and Android apps built using...
How (and Why) We Built Our New Visual Studio App Center Tester Apps: Preview Now Available!
We’re excited to announce that HockeyApp for App Center, our native iOS and Android apps, are now available! HockeyApp for App Center brings the functionality of the App Center install website to a native app experience, making it even easier for you and your beta testers to get the latest and greatest builds as soon as they’re available. We call the app "HockeyApp" because we want to welcome our HockeyApp users to using this app; all the apps you distribute through HockeyApp are also visible and downloadable with this app! Why You, Your Team, and Your Users Will Love HockeyApp for App Center The native apps ...
How (and Why) We Built Our New Visual Studio App Center Tester Apps: Preview Now Available!
We’re excited to announce that HockeyApp for App Center, our native iOS and Android apps, are now available! HockeyApp for App Center brings the functionality of the App Center install website to a native app experience, making it even easier for you and your beta testers to get the latest and greatest builds as soon as they’re available. We call the app "HockeyApp" because we want to welcome our HockeyApp users to using this app; all the apps you distribute through HockeyApp are also visible and downloadable with this app! Why You, Your Team, and Your Users Will Love HockeyApp for App Center The native apps ...
Visual Studio App Center: A Year in Review
The last year has been great! We celebrated the launch of App Center, and since then the team has been improving the product and building new features. You told us that modern Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery service needs to be easy to set up, support multiple platforms, and be extensible. We listened and today provide a service that’s reliable, platform agnostic, easy to use, and modular so you can automate your app development pipeline and focus on coding awesome features. To commemorate 2017, we thought we'd review a few of our favorite features and customer support stats for the year. We Ann...
How “Mono-repo” and “One Infra” Help Us Deliver a Better Developer Experience
As a team, from Visual Studio App Center engineers to product managers, designers, and QA, our goal is simple: build an amazing product for developers. We decided early on that to help our team deliver on our goal, we’d create a set of values that would guide our decisions and keep us on the right path as we add new features, prioritize enhancements to services, or build integrations. We wanted these values to drive not just the product, but our team culture, and after many discussions, we established four core values: customer obsession, simplicity, no silos, and growth mindset. As an Engineering Manager, I’m ...
Three Quick Tips: Signing Your iOS Apps with Visual Studio App Center Build
Once you start building your apps in Visual Studio App Center, you need to get them to your testers and ultimately to your users, which requires you to sign your apps. Dealing with provisioning profiles and certificates can sometimes be a challenging process. Several developers have asked about setting up iOS app signing with App Center, so we've gathered our favorite tips to help you successfully sign your iOS apps, whether for testing or the App Store. 1. Save the build configuration in App Center after you've pushed signing changes to your project In App Center, the build configuration of any branch st...
Guest Blog | Solving “What the Bug?” with the Visual Studio App Center Crashes Service
This is a special guest post from Miguel Cervantes, CTO at Payit. It’s every developer’s nightmare: something goes wrong with your app in the wild, with real users, or, even worse, when you’re showing it to a venture capitalist, potential client, or at public event. In the moment, we usually have no idea what’s happened or how we can fix it. I call these, “what the bug?” moments. Finding a bug in development isn’t easy, but we use automated UI testing on real devices to catch as much as possible at Payit so we can release with confidence (thanks, App Center Test service!). But, once you ship, all bets a...