{"id":38387,"date":"2018-11-21T11:02:02","date_gmt":"2018-11-21T18:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/mobile\/?p=38387"},"modified":"2019-03-01T14:57:43","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T19:57:43","slug":"announcing-ios-app-extension-and-watchos-support-in-visual-studio-app-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/appcenter\/announcing-ios-app-extension-and-watchos-support-in-visual-studio-app-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing iOS App Extension and watchOS Support in Visual Studio App Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Take your apps to the next level with app extensions and watchOS support on Visual Studio App Center! App extensions empower your app to deliver rich experiences and provide powerful functionality throughout the OS where the user wants it most. Without even opening the app itself, users can access core content and functionality to enable custom tasks, features, or services while they interact with other parts of the system.<span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">\u00a0Whether 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.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Getting Started<\/h4>\n<p>After connecting your iOS app repository to App Center, head over to the build configuration to get started. Select your project and then enable \u2018Signed Builds\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1146\" height=\"152\" class=\"wp-image-38388\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/11\/word-image-8.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/appcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/11\/word-image-8.png 1146w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/appcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/11\/word-image-8-300x40.png 300w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/appcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/11\/word-image-8-768x102.png 768w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/appcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/11\/word-image-8-1024x136.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1146px) 100vw, 1146px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>App Center will automatically detect any watchOS or app extension targets in the project and provide fields to upload the certificate and provisioning profiles required. After that, simply click \u2018Save &amp; Build\u2019 to start building your app!<\/p>\n<p>Note: App extension and watchOS support is currently limited to native iOS and React Native projects.<\/p>\n<p>For more info, click to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/app-extensions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">learn more<\/a>\u00a0about App Extensions and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/watchos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">learn more<\/a>\u00a0about watchOS.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1099\" class=\"wp-image-38389\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/11\/word-image-9.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/appcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/11\/word-image-9.png 1000w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/appcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/11\/word-image-9-273x300.png 273w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/appcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/11\/word-image-9-768x844.png 768w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/appcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/11\/word-image-9-932x1024.png 932w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":38390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-38387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobiledev","tag-ios"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>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.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/appcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/appcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/appcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/appcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/appcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/appcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/appcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/appcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/appcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/appcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}