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The latest news, updates and information for mobile developers using Visual Studio App Center
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Scaling Your Distribution Workflow with Shared Groups and AAD support
Both shared groups and AAD support are features that empower you to build great apps, with the included bonus of not worrying about how you will manage each and every one of your testers. Both features can play a big role in making beta distribution and tester management a more scalable practice.
Announcing Extension-less XCUITest Support in Visual Studio App Center Test for iOS 12
Each year Apple releases a new version of iOS and the App Center team works tirelessly to support it in our device lab. Keeping this tradition App Center is pleased to announce launch day support for iOS 12 in App Center.
The Ship List: App Center August Update
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The Visual Studios App Center team has been hard at work, continuing to ship new features and improvements to App Center this summer. Here are some of the newest offerings to come from the App Center team over the last month.
Mobile CI/CD 101
The mobile CI/CD approach allows you to simplify and accelerate the process of creating a quality product. Cloud Mobile CI/CD pipeline based on App Center allows to “configure-and-forget” environment for build, test and distribute. In this article we explained mobile development pitfalls and how to avoid them with automation.
Top 5 Mobile App Security Failures and How To Prevent Them
All developers must take into consideration functionality, user experience and security when they build and update their mobile apps. These issues are not insurmountable and can be addressed by increasing a focus on secure mobile development best practices with developer training resources, improved security hygiene and the addition of automated security testing approach into the dev pipeline to establish a strong security baseline.
Visual Studio App Center Test: Android 9 Pie Support, 3000+ Real Devices, Improved Test Notifications and More
We are excited to announce App Center has same-day Test framework and device support for Android P. If automated UI testing is not already part of your development pipeline, App Center can help.
VIDEO: Continuous Integration and Delivery Cloud Services for iOS and Android
App Center is a modular platform that lets you pick and choose the services you need to continuously build, test, release and monitor apps for Android, iOS, macOS, really whatever platform you choose.
Publish Enterprise Apps with Visual Studio App Center and Intune
Publishing and distributing line of business apps in an enterprise, can be challenging for both developers and admins. Developers often use custom build tools, manually test across multiple devices and upload apps to an internal company site for distribution. Microsoft Intune offers the company portal for simple and secure distribution of apps within an enterprise. Publishing apps to the company portal could involve custom solutions using Intune API’s or sending app packages to an IT admin within the company, who uploads the apps to the company portal via the Intune blade on the Azure portal. Visual Studio App...
Visual Studio App Center and GDPR
On the Visual Studio App Center team, our engineers are completely aligned with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which gives consumers better and more explicit control of data – especially their personal data.