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2017 - App Center Blog

Distribute Apps Faster with Visual Studio App Center and Azure Functions, Part I

December 28, 2017 Dec 28, 2017 12/28/17
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As members of the Visual Studio App Center team, we’re driven to create an easy-to-use, web-based user experience, and our API-first mentality steers our product decisions. We’ve designed App Center to give you and your team ultimate flexibility and freedom: you pick and choose the components that best fit your needs, so you have more time...

Sweeten Your Apps with Android Oreo & Visual Studio App Center

December 20, 2017 Dec 20, 2017 12/20/17
Visual Studio App Center
While the recent release of Android Oreo, the eighth major operating system version since Android launched in 2008, focuses on fundamentals like performance and reliability, it still packs several highlights for both end users and developers. With all of the updates, we’re breaking down a few of our favorite user-facing features and backend ...

Deliver Better iPhone X UX with Visual Studio App Center

December 19, 2017 Dec 19, 2017 12/19/17
Visual Studio App Center
The iPhone X is unlike its predecessors in size, design, and operating system. With this new form factor and the recent iOS 11 release, it’s an exciting time to be an iOS developer, but from the introduction of a taller screen, the “notch controversy,” and the removal of the home button, there are big implications for iPhone users and ...

Win an Xbox One S from Visual Studio App Center

December 14, 2017 Dec 14, 2017 12/14/17
Visual Studio App Center
(image) Sign up and tweet for a chance to win one of 10 Xbox One S consoles! As a thank you to all the users who contributed to a fantastic launch, we're celebrating the holidays early by giving away ten Xbox One S bundles to lucky users. Anyone can enter! How to Enter STEP 1: Sign Up If you don't already have an App Center account, ...

Guest Blog | Zero to App in 20 Minutes: Build Your First Chat App with Microsoft Azure, Visual Studio App Center, and Rapid

December 7, 2017 Dec 7, 2017 12/7/17
Visual Studio App Center
This is a special guest post from David Drobik, co-founder at Rapid. Until recently, we had only one option for communicating with friends, family, and colleagues from our mobile phones: Short Messaging System (SMS). Now, though, we don’t have to limit our communication to 160 characters (the SMS max per message, in case you don’t ...

Guest Blog | A Mobile DevOps Retrospective, Part III: Measurement, the Last Mile

November 29, 2017 Nov 29, 2017 11/29/17
Visual Studio App Center
This is Part III in a special guest series from Greg Shackles, Principal Engineer at Olo. New to the series? Start here.   In my last post, I shared how automation, one of DevOps’ key concepts, frees our team to solve real problems, and how it’s created a cross-team “culture of ownership.” Everyone—from our developers to ...

Microsoft Connect 2017 Visual Studio App Center Round-Up

November 22, 2017 Nov 22, 2017 11/22/17
Visual Studio App Center
Last week’s Connect event was full of exciting announcements, demos, and technical sessions. From announcing the General Availability of Visual Studio App Center to showing you how to use the latest and greatest services to build better apps, we’re excited to help developers focus on what matters: shipping awesome apps on any platform. ...

How We Build SDKs Developers Love

November 22, 2017 Nov 22, 2017 11/22/17
Visual Studio App Center
We—the Visual Studio App Center development team—have released SDKs for Android, iOS, React Native, UWP and Xamarin, with more in the works. As we build new tools, we do so knowing that many are successors to popular SDKs, like HockeyApp, that developers already use and love (for good reason). When we started working on App Center, we ...