App Center Blog

Deliver Lightning Fast Updates to your Users with CodePush: A Beginner’s Guide

January 12, 2018 Jan 12, 2018 01/12/18

Zakeel Muhammad

As app developers, we move fast, whether we're working on code, testing, validating, shipping, or iterating. Delivering critical bug fixes and minor features to your users quickly means the difference between a great user experience and a lackluster one, or, put more simply, the difference between a happy user and one who deletes your app...

Guest Blog | Your Guide to Getting Feedback Fast and Building Better Apps

January 9, 2018 Jan 9, 2018 01/9/18

Visual Studio App Center

This is a special guest post from Marco Kuiper, Consultant at Info Support and blogger at Marcofolio.net.   Many developers are good at building things right, but far fewer are skilled at building the right thing. While you need a strong idea of what problem you’re solving for your users (and why and how), you can’t rely on vision and...

Guest Blog | Your Guide to Getting Feedback Fast and Building Better Apps

January 9, 2018 Jan 9, 2018 01/9/18

Visual Studio App Center

This is a special guest post from Marco Kuiper, Consultant at Info Support and blogger at Marcofolio.net.   Many developers are good at building things right, but far fewer are skilled at building the right thing. While you need a strong idea of what problem you’re solving for your users (and why and how), you can’t rely on vision and...

Better Decisions Through Better Analytics: Visual Studio App Center with Azure Application Insights

January 6, 2018 Jan 6, 2018 01/6/18

Blanca Delgado Parra [MSFT]

To properly manage your development pipeline and product strategy, you first need understand your users and how they interact with your apps. Visual Studio App Center Analytics offers free, glanceable, out-of-the-box analytics to get anyone started, and simple integration with Azure Application Insights gives even the most data-hungry business...

Build Any App with Visual Studio App Center

January 5, 2018 Jan 5, 2018 01/5/18

Visual Studio App Center

At Microsoft, we strive to deliver the best developer tools on the planet in order to help make all developers more productive. With Visual Studio App Center, you can easily automate your DevOps lifecycle to continuously build, test, release, and monitor your apps on every platform, so you have more time to focus on your users and their ...

Top 12 Visual Studio App Center Tips and Tricks of 2017

January 3, 2018 Jan 3, 2018 01/3/18

Visual Studio App Center

2017 was a big year for us and Visual Studio App Center, from announcing our General Availability to expanding to even more platforms and services. We’re excited for an amazing 2018, as we help you, and app developers everywhere, build better apps. Our goal is to create an amazing developer experience, so you can stay 100% focused on ...

Distribute Apps Faster with Visual Studio App Center and Azure Functions, Part I

December 28, 2017 Dec 28, 2017 12/28/17

pnikoletich

As members of the Visual Studio App Center team, we’re driven to create an easy-to-use, web-based user experience, and our API-first mentality steers our product decisions. We’ve designed App Center to give you and your team ultimate flexibility and freedom: you pick and choose the components that best fit your needs, so you have more time...

Sweeten Your Apps with Android Oreo & Visual Studio App Center

December 20, 2017 Dec 20, 2017 12/20/17

Visual Studio App Center

While the recent release of Android Oreo, the eighth major operating system version since Android launched in 2008, focuses on fundamentals like performance and reliability, it still packs several highlights for both end users and developers. With all of the updates, we’re breaking down a few of our favorite user-facing features and backend ...

Deliver Better iPhone X UX with Visual Studio App Center

December 19, 2017 Dec 19, 2017 12/19/17

Visual Studio App Center

The iPhone X is unlike its predecessors in size, design, and operating system. With this new form factor and the recent iOS 11 release, it’s an exciting time to be an iOS developer, but from the introduction of a taller screen, the “notch controversy,” and the removal of the home button, there are big implications for iPhone users and ...

Win an Xbox One S from Visual Studio App Center

December 14, 2017 Dec 14, 2017 12/14/17

Visual Studio App Center

(image) Sign up and tweet for a chance to win one of 10 Xbox One S consoles! As a thank you to all the users who contributed to a fantastic launch, we're celebrating the holidays early by giving away ten Xbox One S bundles to lucky users. Anyone can enter! How to Enter STEP 1: Sign Up If you don't already have an App Center account, ...