App Center Blog

The latest news, updates and information for mobile developers using Visual Studio App Center

Introducing the App Center Slack App

Visual Studio Mobile Center is now Visual Studio App Center. Learn more here.   I’m Amanda, and I’m passionate about optimization, making processes more efficient, and building apps that improve the world. I'm always looking for ways to save time, whether it’s in personal projects or in my work as a App Center Program Manager, where...

The Ship List: Mobile Center October Update

(image)   Visual Studio Mobile Center is now Visual Studio App Center. Learn more here.   The Mobile Center team has been hard at work adding new functionality and improving existing services. If you attended or watched the Microsoft Ignite live stream, you've heard about some of our exciting updates including build scripts, ...

How to Build Better Apps with Xcode 9 and iOS 11

Visual Studio Mobile Center is now Visual Studio App Center. Learn more here.   Apple’s official release of iOS 11 is packed with a smorgasbord of tasty morsels for users and developers. To help you dive in and get the most from iOS 11 and Xcode 9, I’m highlighting my favorite new features and how they—like Mobile Center—free you ...

How We Do Code Review

Visual Studio Mobile Center is now Visual Studio App Center. Learn more here.   The Mobile Center team is a diverse mix of engineers, product managers, and UI/UX designers with varying professional backgrounds, experience, and countries of origin. Our team has people from over 10 countries working across 8 time zones. Some are fresh out ...

Get Started Faster with Mobile Center: Build, Test, and Deploy your Apps with New Quickstarts

Visual Studio Mobile Center is now Visual Studio App Center. Learn more here.   As a developer, you want to focus on building new features, solving users’ problems, and shipping high quality code. Whether you write your apps with Xamarin, Swift, Objective-C, Java, or React Native, Visual Studio Mobile Center helps you simplify your ...

Guest Blog | Fixing Disasters ASAP with Instant Updates

Visual Studio Mobile Center is now Visual Studio App Center. Learn more here.   This is a special guest post from Michael Hayes, co-founder of Add Jam and Pocket Leap. Web developers have one big advantage over mobile developers: when users report a bug in the latest update, if we react fast we can push out a fix in no time, and on the ...

Simple, Yet Powerful: How We Make Our Builds Better

Visual Studio Mobile Center is now Visual Studio App Center. Learn more here.   Mobile developers have a lot of challenges, and our goal is to make building and deploying your app the least of your worries. We (the Mobile Center Build team) developed a simple Android and iOS app called PomPom to ensure we’re delivering the best ...

AltConf / WWDC Wrap-Up

Visual Studio Mobile Center is now Visual Studio App Center. Learn more here.   We just wrapped up four days in San Jose for AltConf 2017, and we had a fantastic time. We shared some information, learned an awful lot from attendees, and had a blast along the way. Here are some of the highlights. (image) Speaking Sessions We got to ...