App Center Blog
The latest news, updates and information for mobile developers using Visual Studio App Center
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Upcoming Webinar | Xamarin University Presents: Ship Better Apps with Visual Studio App Center
In my role as a Program Manager for Xamarin University, my team and I have helped thousands of developers get hands-on to learn how to build better native Android, iOS, UWP, and connected device apps using C# and Visual Studio Tools for Xamarin. Now I'd like to invite you to join me for Xamarin University Presents: Ship Better Apps with Visual Studio App Center on Thursday, January 25th at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 5pm UTC to see how Visual Studio App Center makes it easy for any developer (at any experience level) to continuously build, test, distribute, and monitor apps written in any language. I’ll focus on a few...
Upcoming Webinar | Xamarin University Presents: Ship Better Apps with Visual Studio App Center
In my role as a Program Manager for Xamarin University, my team and I have helped thousands of developers get hands-on to learn how to build better native Android, iOS, UWP, and connected device apps using C# and Visual Studio Tools for Xamarin. Now I'd like to invite you to join me for Xamarin University Presents: Ship Better Apps with Visual Studio App Center on Thursday, January 25th at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 5pm UTC to see how Visual Studio App Center makes it easy for any developer (at any experience level) to continuously build, test, distribute, and monitor apps written in any language. I’ll focus on a few...
Deliver Lightning Fast Updates to your Users with CodePush: A Beginner’s Guide
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. Bugs and errors are unavoidable elements of programming that we all know too well. Because of this, updates and patches serve as the crutch of development. In mobile development, though, updates and patches aren’t immediate. You spend time re-building and re-packaging fo...
Deliver Lightning Fast Updates to your Users with CodePush: A Beginner’s Guide
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. Bugs and errors are unavoidable elements of programming that we all know too well. Because of this, updates and patches serve as the crutch of development. In mobile development, though, updates and patches aren’t immediate. You spend time re-building and re-packaging fo...
Guest Blog | Your Guide to Getting Feedback Fast and Building Better Apps
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 gut feeling alone. Gathering insights and feedback from your users is critical to winning their loyalty, as well as to your long-term success and profitability as an app developer. In my work as a professional developer, I’ve learned how to couple quantitative information wit...
Guest Blog | Your Guide to Getting Feedback Fast and Building Better Apps
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 gut feeling alone. Gathering insights and feedback from your users is critical to winning their loyalty, as well as to your long-term success and profitability as an app developer. In my work as a professional developer, I’ve learned how to couple quantitative information wit...
Better Decisions Through Better Analytics: Visual Studio App Center with Azure Application Insights
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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 the deep insights they need. In this post, you'll learn how you can use App Center Analytics and Application Insights together to help you make decisions in your app. With a simple SDK integration and setup, you get robust analytics and data that provide the immediate fe...
Build Any App with 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 experience. The App Center Build service is completely free for your first 240 build minutes per month (up to 30 minutes per build) and supports iOS, macOS, Windows, and, of course, Android apps. App Center supports apps written in Obj-C, Swift, Java, React Native, and Xamar...
Top 12 Visual Studio App Center Tips and Tricks of 2017
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 creating amazing experiences for your users. As we’ve continued to iterate, collected your feedback, and released new features, we’ve created a few blog posts and videos to make it even easier to start simplifying and automating your development pipeline. Over the holiday season, we...