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HockeyApp’s Exciting Future in Visual Studio App Center
Over the last month, we’ve been excited to welcome thousands of new HockeyApp customers to Visual Studio App Center. As you may have read, last month we shared that HockeyApp will fully transition to App Center on November 16, 2019. Over this coming year, HockeyApp customers will discover all the benefits of App Center: the next generation of HockeyApp's distribution, crash reporting and analytics services, as well as powerful new services and features exclusive to App Center. Get Started with your Transition Today As a HockeyApp customer it’s easy to get started wit...
A New Year Ahead – the HockeyApp Cutover Experience
In 2017, we announced that HockeyApp features and functionality would move to Visual Studio App Center, a single solution for continuously build ing, testing, releasing, and monitoring your apps and recently shared that HockeyApp will fully transition to App Center on November 16, 2019. In order to deliver a seamless experience to developers, our team conducted many customer interviews and worked across various teams to ensure that we understood our users’ needs. Personally, one of the aspects that I enjoy most as a Product Manager is speaking with our users! We are very thankful for your continu...
Creating Memories with Better DevOps for Unity Games in Visual Studio App Center
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2018 has been a big year for Visual Studio App Center, with all the updates and releases. It has been especially exciting to work with the game developer community to provide better-tailored services for your needs. Here are some of the highlights from 2018, mainly for Unity developers, as well as a glimpse into what we have in store going into the next year, for game developers in App Center. Beginning the Journey at GDC 2018 App Center’s gaming journey began at the Microsoft booth at the annual Game Developers Conference in San Francisco in March of 2018. We knew developers had found success using HockeyApp,...
The Easy-to-Use and Modular App Center SDK
App Center supports a client SDK that is important to onboard to our services like Analytics, Diagnostics, and Push notifications. These SDKs are open source on GitHub, designed with a modular architecture, and easy-to-use APIs to make sure developers have an easy on-boarding experience. App Center supports a wide variety of SDK platforms - iOS, Android, macOS, DotNet, React Native, and Unity. This blog post covers most of the SDK features shipped by the App Center team this year. A few key features supported in the SDK: Some of these features are available only for select platforms – iOS, Android and Un...
Surging – Remote Teams Working Together in Person for a Week to Make Magic.
Visual Studio App Center has a globally distributed team. We have teams from South Korea, India, USA, Denmark and more. With our distributed nature, we have used all the electronic tools and processes we can to try and enable all of our team members to have a great working experiences and be highly productive, regardless of time zone or location. We use Microsoft Teams, Azure Boards and many more. We also record Teams meetings so that people in other time zones can review them later. With all that, we found that there were situations where we need to come together as a group and get specific projects done on a...
Visual Studio App Center’s GitHub App: The Ultimate Stocking Stuffer
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It has been a big year for both Visual Studio App Center and GitHub. Best of all was some of the work we did together! Earlier this year, App Center brought to you the Visual Studio App Center app in the GitHub Marketplace. GitHub users can take advantage of a tailored continuous integration (CI) solution for mobile apps directly from GitHub. A Magical Start We believe in making mobile development easier. So easy that we brought the experience to you in the workflow you are already used to. Simply open a pull request in a repository with a mobile project, and see the App Center GitHub Marketplace app automatical...
Deck the Halls with an Improved Visual Studio App Center Portal UI
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As we’re wrapping up 2018 here at Visual Studio App Center, our team is proud of the new features and functionality we’ve been able to deliver to you this year. Over the next two weeks, we want to share some improvements we’ve been doing behind the scenes, along with some new and exciting changes for 2019. I often hear customers commenting on how great App Center looks. We take pride in our design-first mindset, but as our design language evolves, and as we focus on different parts of the product, sometimes we have to take a step back and evaluate the user experience as a whole. One of the things we've always ...
Visual Studio App Center CLI Customers – Event-Stream Package Security Update and Next Steps
On Nov 26, 2018, the npm security team removed `flatmap-stream` from the popular `event-stream@3.3.6` package. In late September, `flatmap-stream` had been added as a dependency by a GitHub developer identified as “right9control” in an apparent attempt to attack the `ps-tree` package running in copay, a cryptocurrency wallet. You can read about the timeline of events and more details in this NPM blog post and corresponding GitHub issue. Some recent versions of the Visual Studio App Center CLI included the compromised version of the event-stream package, however users were not impacted as the CLI does not includ...
Announcing iOS App Extension and watchOS Support in Visual Studio App Center
Whether you want to add a widget to the Today screen, create new photo editing tools directly in the Camera app, or bring your app to the Apple Watch, App Center is excited to continue enabling developers to create amazing mobile experiences.