App Center Blog

Guest Blog | Zero to App in 20 Minutes: Build Your First Chat App with Microsoft Azure, Visual Studio App Center, and Rapid

December 7, 2017 Dec 7, 2017 12/7/17

Visual Studio App Center

This is a special guest post from David Drobik, co-founder at Rapid. Until recently, we had only one option for communicating with friends, family, and colleagues from our mobile phones: Short Messaging System (SMS). Now, though, we don’t have to limit our communication to 160 characters (the SMS max per message, in case you don’t ...

Behind the Scenes @ our Hackathon: Join the Hunt and Ship Intelligent Apps

December 2, 2017 Dec 2, 2017 12/2/17

Visual Studio App Center

Hello and G’day, Mike and Rob here*. We’re long-time developers and, in our current roles as Microsoft Global Black Belts, we help our customers set up CI/CD processes and create apps that use the latest technology and services, from Fortune 500 companies building dozens of apps to mobile-first organizations where apps are their business...

A/B Test All the Things: React Native Experiments with App Center

November 30, 2017 Nov 30, 2017 11/30/17

Visual Studio App Center

Visual Studio App Center helps developers ship better apps faster, but it also helps you build features your users will love. How? We designed App Center to be API-first and fully modular. This means that when you integrate App Center services with your existing toolchain, you have the flexibility to apply them to other parts of your ...

Guest Blog | A Mobile DevOps Retrospective, Part III: Measurement, the Last Mile

November 29, 2017 Nov 29, 2017 11/29/17

Visual Studio App Center

This is Part III in a special guest series from Greg Shackles, Principal Engineer at Olo. New to the series? Start here.   In my last post, I shared how automation, one of DevOps’ key concepts, frees our team to solve real problems, and how it’s created a cross-team “culture of ownership.” Everyone—from our developers to ...

Microsoft Connect 2017 Visual Studio App Center Round-Up

November 22, 2017 Nov 22, 2017 11/22/17

Visual Studio App Center

Last week’s Connect event was full of exciting announcements, demos, and technical sessions. From announcing the General Availability of Visual Studio App Center to showing you how to use the latest and greatest services to build better apps, we’re excited to help developers focus on what matters: shipping awesome apps on any platform. ...

How We Build SDKs Developers Love

November 22, 2017 Nov 22, 2017 11/22/17

Visual Studio App Center

We—the Visual Studio App Center development team—have released SDKs for Android, iOS, React Native, UWP and Xamarin, with more in the works. As we build new tools, we do so knowing that many are successors to popular SDKs, like HockeyApp, that developers already use and love (for good reason). When we started working on App Center, we ...

Introducing App Center: Build, Test, Distribute and Monitor Apps in the Cloud

November 15, 2017 Nov 15, 2017 11/15/17

Visual Studio App Center

Today, we launched Visual Studio App Center1, and it is now generally available for Android, iOS, macOS, and Windows apps. App Center has everything you need to manage the lifecycle of your apps, including automated builds, testing on real devices in the cloud, distribution to beta testers and app stores, and monitoring of real-world usage ...

Everything at Microsoft Connect(); for the Visual Studio App Center Developer

November 15, 2017 Nov 15, 2017 11/15/17

Visual Studio App Center

Microsoft Connect (); kicked off this morning, with tons of announcements and demos, including the General Availability of Visual Studio App Center! There’s still a lot of great content to come over the next few days, so to help you hone in on what matters most for you, check out the round up below featuring all things mobile, DevOps, and ...

Visual Studio App Center: The Next Generation of Xamarin Test Cloud

November 15, 2017 Nov 15, 2017 11/15/17

Glenn Wester

Today at Microsoft Connect(); we announced the launch of Visual Studio App Center, the next generation of Xamarin Test Cloud. App Center brings the power of Xamarin Test Cloud combined with ability to build, distribute, monitor and integrate push notifications- all in one place. Get all the features you use and love today in Xamarin Test Cloud...

Guest Blog | A Mobile DevOps Retrospective Part II: Automation

October 26, 2017 Oct 26, 2017 10/26/17

Visual Studio App Center

Visual Studio Mobile Center is now Visual Studio App Center. Learn more here.   This is Part II in a special guest series from Greg Shackles, Principal Engineer at Olo. New to the series? Start here. As I wrote in my last post, DevOps is (1) more than tooling, (2) crucial to mobile app development, (3) rarely done, and (4) worth it. ...