{"id":496,"date":"2017-09-19T04:02:38","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T21:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/mobilecenter\/?p=496"},"modified":"2019-02-16T15:30:45","modified_gmt":"2019-02-16T22:30:45","slug":"get-started-faster-with-mobile-center-build-test-and-deploy-your-apps-with-new-quickstarts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/appcenter\/get-started-faster-with-mobile-center-build-test-and-deploy-your-apps-with-new-quickstarts\/","title":{"rendered":"Get Started Faster with Mobile Center: Build, Test, and Deploy your Apps with New Quickstarts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Visual Studio Mobile Center is now Visual Studio App Center. <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/vsappcenter\/introducing-visual-studio-app-center\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Learn more here<\/em><\/a>.<\/em>\n&nbsp;\nAs a developer, you want to focus on building new features, solving users\u2019 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 development lifecycle, from build to distribute, so you spend more time creating great apps.<\/p>\n<h3>Get Started<\/h3>\n<p>With our new sample apps and tutorials (available for iOS and Android), you get step-by-step walkthroughs of Mobile Center services, including how to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li>Fork our iOS and Android sample code, so you can start right away.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" alt=\"Visit our sample code repo and click \u201cFork\u201d to add it to yours.\" width=\"800\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1025\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li>Build apps in the cloud, without managing local build machines.<\/li>\n<li>Run automated UI tests on more than 2,500 real devices, with support for popular frameworks like Appium, Espresso, XCUITest, and Xamarin.UITest.<\/li>\n<li>Engage users with relevant push notifications, selecting specific customers, geographies, or languages.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" alt=\"Customize push notification targets with our simple menu-based interface.\" width=\"800\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1035\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li>Distribute apps to internal or external beta testers with a few clicks, and push to enterprise and public app stores.<\/li>\n<li>View crash reports to identify and resolve problems.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" alt=\"Get grouped crash reports to identify audience impacts and severity right away.\" width=\"800\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1045\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Use out-of-the-box reports to understand user profiles and behavior, and add custom events to track behavior through any path.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The sample apps work in parallel with the tutorials and your Mobile Center account, allowing you to create sample crash data, track analytics, and more. To explore <em>Crashes<\/em> and <em>Custom Analytics Data<\/em>, simply swipe to those screens in the sample apps, click the \u201cSend a sample\u201d buttons on those screens, and see the data appear in your Mobile Center dashboard.<\/p>\n<p>Try out the apps today: fork our <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/MobileCenter\/sampleapp-ios-swift\" rel=\"noopener\">iOS<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/MobileCenter\/sampleapp-android\" rel=\"noopener\">Android<\/a> repos, then <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/mobile.azure.com\/?utm_source=Eng_blog&amp;utm_medium=Blog&amp;utm_campaign=mobilecenter_September_Content_Calendar&amp;utm_content=get-started-faster\" rel=\"noopener\">create a free Mobile Center account or log in to your existing account<\/a> to start building, testing, and distributing the apps today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visual Studio Mobile Center is now Visual Studio App Center. 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