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Learn Microsoft Visual Studio App Center

With Xamarin Forms

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  • © 2019

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Authors:
  1. Sunny Mukherjee

    1. Tampa, USA

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  • Contains examples of building your app on iOS or Android, distributing your app to your team, capturing analytics and crashes from your app users, and testing your app on the cloud
  • Shows examples of push notifications from the App Center to either iOS or Android
  • Demonstrates live UI tests on the App Center cloud on iOS and Android devices

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Getting Started

    • Sunny Mukherjee
    Pages 1-38

  3. Creating Builds

    • Sunny Mukherjee
    Pages 39-97

  4. Setting Up Distribution

    • Sunny Mukherjee
    Pages 99-168

  5. Reporting Analytics and Crashes

    • Sunny Mukherjee
    Pages 169-216

  6. Sending Push Notifications

    • Sunny Mukherjee
    Pages 217-270

  7. Running Tests

    • Sunny Mukherjee
    Pages 271-324

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 325-330
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About this book

Use Visual Studio App Center with Xamarin Forms to set up a DevOps CI/CD pipeline, set up your mobile builds on either iOS or Android, set up Android and Apple certificates and provisioning profiles, distribute your app to your developers and testers, capture analytics and crashes from your users, communicate to your users with push notifications, and run UI tests on the Microsoft cloud. You will see how to automate and manage the life cycle of your apps through Microsoft's Cloud Service, with a focus on integrating App Center into your Xamarin Forms apps with clear, practical examples. As you follow along with the sample app, you will see how easy it is to configure your builds, to test the sample app on various iOS and Android devices on the App Center cloud, and to distribute your app to real devices.  


Whether you are a developer on a small team or a startup or an architect in a large organization curious about the benefits of Visual Studio App Center, after finishing this book, you will be confident in setting up App Center on your next mobile project. Come join me on this journey through Visual Studio App Center with Xamarin Forms.



What You Will Learn
    Create a DevOps CI/CD pipeline for your mobile app on both iOS and Android devices
  • Save money without buying multiple iOS and Android devices and instead run cloud UI tests
  • Stay informed about build successes and failures by integrating App Center with Slack
  • Set up groups and add team members to your groups on App Center
  • Distribute your app to your team on either iOS or Android devices
  • Capture important user events in your code and report to App Center
  • Give a friendly user experience by handling crashes gracefully and reporting to App Center
  • Keep and analyze your user’s data on Azure by setting up automatic data export to Azure
  • Communicate with your users using iOS and Android notification services from App Center
  • Give your users a better experience by sending silent push notifications 
  • Include custom data in your push notifications

Who This Book Is For


Xamarin Forms mobile developers with previous experience using the Xamarin framework. 



Authors and Affiliations

  • Tampa, USA

    Sunny Mukherjee

About the author

Sunny Mukherjee is a lead developer. He has close to 15 years of experience in IT where he has worked on multiple platforms, including web, desktop, mobile, and cloud. He has worked in multiple industries, including healthcare, finance, retail, and defense. His other expertise includes software architecture, business plans and presentations, idea brainstorming and pitching, and fictional works. In his free time, he loves reading about astronomy, following the latest science and technology news, riding his bike, traveling to the beach, taking photographs, cooking, meditating, working out, and watching movies. He routinely shares important articles on his LinkedIn profile about .NET, new technologies, new discoveries, and career tips.

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