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Xamarin Continuous Integration and Delivery

Team Services, Test Cloud, and HockeyApp

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  • © 2017

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Authors:
  1. Gerald Versluis

    1. Sittard, The Netherlands

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  • Provides a zero-cost solution for eliminating a pain point in mobile app development
  • A step-by-step guide that saves developers from having to repeat a tedious manual process for each new iteration of an app
  • Presents an optimized process that results in developers getting an increase in much-coveted, five-star ratings

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Why an Automated Pipeline?

    • Gerald Versluis
    Pages 1-5

  3. Establishing the Prerequisites

    • Gerald Versluis
    Pages 7-23

  4. Creating Your First Build

    • Gerald Versluis
    Pages 25-54

  5. Customizing Your Builds

    • Gerald Versluis
    Pages 55-70

  6. Creating and Running Tests with Xamarin Test Cloud

    • Gerald Versluis
    Pages 71-91

  7. Integrating Tests into Your Builds

    • Gerald Versluis
    Pages 93-108

  8. Preparing for Distribution

    • Gerald Versluis
    Pages 109-124

  9. Releasing Your App

    • Gerald Versluis
    Pages 125-151

  10. A Closer Look at HockeyApp

    • Gerald Versluis
    Pages 153-167

  11. Where to Go from Here

    • Gerald Versluis
    Pages 169-177

  12. Alternative Tooling

    • Gerald Versluis
    Pages 179-191

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 193-197
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About this book

Learn everything you need to set up a full-featured, automated pipeline for Xamarin development and deployment. Automate everything from the build step through to deployment and delivery to your customer. If you thought this level of automation could be achieved only by large companies with generous funding, think again! You as a single developer, or working in a small team or company, can automate your processes to punch heavier than your weight. What’s more, you can achieve this level of automation completely for free!


This hands-on guide takes you step-by-step from setting up your first automated build all the way to integrated unit testing, and finally through to delivering a high-quality app to your testers and end users. The automation presented in this book saves a lot of frustration and recurring work, providing you more time to focus on building the robust and compelling apps that delight your customers and keep you steps ahead of the competition.Not only does this book teach how to get a grip on consistent quality, but it covers the use of HockeyApp to track events and usage, and to report errors and anomalies back to home base for developers to investigate. Many times it’s possible to detect and fix errors before a user even notices they are there.


This book:

  • Teaches the necessity of an automated development pipeline
  • Helps you set up an automated pipeline for Xamarin development
  • Integrates testing (on physical devices!) to ensure high-quality apps

What You'll Learn
  • Why you want an automated development pipeline
  • Obtain and configure the automated tooling
  • Continuously integrate your apps
  • Run automated unit tests
  • Push updates to your customers
  • Monitor and detect errors without user intervention




Who This BookIs For

App developers looking for ways to ensure consistent quality of work and wanting to know how their apps are doing in actual use by customers

Authors and Affiliations

  • Sittard, The Netherlands

    Gerald Versluis

About the author

Gerald Versluis is a full-stack software developer and Microsoft MVP from Holland. After years of experience working with Xamarin and .NET technologies, he has been involved in numerous different projects, in all kinds of roles. A great number of these projects are Xamarin apps. Not only does Gerald like to code, but he is also keen on spreading his knowledge - as well as gaining some in the bargain. Gerald involves himself in speaking, providing training sessions and writing blogs and articles in his spare time. 


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