{"id":10555,"date":"2017-03-07T10:00:42","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T18:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/?p=10555"},"modified":"2019-10-24T17:36:48","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T00:36:48","slug":"mobile-center-xamarin-support-detailed-app-analytics-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/mobile-center-xamarin-support-detailed-app-analytics-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobile Center: Xamarin support, detailed app analytics, and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since our announcement of the Visual Studio Mobile Center Preview at Connect();, \u00a0we\u2019ve had an amazing response from the developer community. I\u2019d like to thank the thousands of you who\u2019ve created accounts, kicked the tires of our lifecycle services, and provided feedback to help us create the simplest, most effective way to build, test, deploy, and monitor mobile apps from a single service.<\/p>\n<p>As we head toward General Availability, we\u2019ve incorporated that feedback into our roadmap, added new services, doubled down on existing services, and increased the size of our engineering team to make it all happen. Here\u2019s an update of where we stand, and a preview of what\u2019s to come.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Any developer. Any app. Any platform.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mobile Center works with you, wherever you are, and whatever your toolset. Any iOS or Android developer working in Objective-C, Swift, Java, or React Native or Xamarin, you can take advantage of everything we offer, from continuous integration to testing to release management and analytics.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/06\/mobile-center.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/06\/mobile-center.png\" alt=\"mobile-center\" width=\"1427\" height=\"822\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10565\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Complete mobile lifecycle management<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mobile Center is mission control for your mobile apps, designed to let you focus on apps instead of ops. How exactly do we do that? Here\u2019s a look at our Beacon Services:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Build automates cloud-based builds every time you commit code. You can even build iOS apps automatically, without a Mac.<\/li>\n<li>Test execute automated UI tests across operating systems on thousands of real-world devices with every Build. Test supports a range of frameworks, including Appium, UITest, Calabash, and Espresso. These tests integrate directly into your CI pipeline, so you know the results of your code changes almost immediately.<\/li>\n<li>Distribute automatically moves passing builds to beta testers or app stores.<\/li>\n<li>Crashes and Analytics provide detailed, real-time data about your apps in the wild, so you can identify emerging trends and fix bugs and performance issues before they become problems.<\/li>\n<li>Tables and Identity provide scalable backend authentication, sync, and storage solutions so you can focus on building your app, instead of the infrastructure around it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s coming Next<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re hard at work on all the features in our <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/mobile-center\/general\/roadmap?utm_medium=referral_link&amp;utm_source=Xamarin&amp;utm_campaign=VSRTM%20Blog\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">product roadmap<\/a><u>.<\/u> Future versions of Mobile Center will include expanded platform support for Universal Windows Platform and the Cordova framework, as well as push notifications.<\/p>\n<p>Mobile Center is free during Preview. If you haven\u2019t yet checked it out, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/mobile.azure.com\/signup?utm_medium=referral_link&amp;utm_source=Xamarin&amp;utm_campaign=VSRTM%20Blog\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sign up for free today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" width=\"600\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"150\"><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/06\/keith.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/06\/keith.jpg\" alt=\"keith\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10575\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"450\"><strong>Keith Ballinger<\/strong>, Director of Program Management for Mobile Developer Cloud Services<\/p>\n<p>Keith was previously the VP of Product for Xamarin, which Microsoft acquired in March of 2016.\u00a0Keith has a strong background in entrepreneurship, engineering, and product management, dating back to his time as a PM on the original .NET team.\u00a0Previous to Xamarin, Keith was the Chief Architect at the\u00a0YC-backed startup Standard Treasury,\u00a0building an API-first bank. He&#8217;s the author of two books on programming, &#8220;.NET Web Service: Architecture\u00a0and\u00a0Implementation&#8221; and co-author of &#8220;Special Edition: Using ASP.&#8221;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since our announcement of the Visual Studio Mobile Center Preview at Connect();, \u00a0we\u2019ve had an amazing response from the developer community. 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