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February 2018 - App Center Blog

How (and Why) We Built Our New Visual Studio App Center Tester Apps: Preview Now Available!

February 28, 2018 Feb 28, 2018 02/28/18
Visual Studio App Center
We’re excited to announce that HockeyApp for App Center, our native iOS and Android apps, are now available! HockeyApp for App Center brings the functionality of the App Center install website to a native app experience, making it even easier for you and your beta testers to get the latest and greatest builds as soon as they’re available. ...

Visual Studio App Center: A Year in Review

February 22, 2018 Feb 22, 2018 02/22/18
Joseph Mellin
The last year has been great! We celebrated the launch of App Center, and since then the team has been improving the product and building new features. You told us that modern Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery service needs to be easy to set up, support multiple platforms, and be extensible. We listened and today provide a service...

How “Mono-repo” and “One Infra” Help Us Deliver a Better Developer Experience

February 21, 2018 Feb 21, 2018 02/21/18
Visual Studio App Center
As a team, from Visual Studio App Center engineers to product managers, designers, and QA, our goal is simple: build an amazing product for developers. We decided early on that to help our team deliver on our goal, we’d create a set of values that would guide our decisions and keep us on the right path as we add new features, prioritize ...

Three Quick Tips: Signing Your iOS Apps with Visual Studio App Center Build

February 15, 2018 Feb 15, 2018 02/15/18
Daniel Adams
Once you start building your apps in Visual Studio App Center, you need to get them to your testers and ultimately to your users, which requires you to sign your apps. Dealing with provisioning profiles and certificates can sometimes be a challenging process. Several developers have asked about setting up iOS app signing with App Center, so we...

Guest Blog | Solving “What the Bug?” with the Visual Studio App Center Crashes Service

February 13, 2018 Feb 13, 2018 02/13/18
Visual Studio App Center
This is a special guest post from Miguel Cervantes, CTO at Payit.   It’s every developer’s nightmare: something goes wrong with your app in the wild, with real users, or, even worse, when you’re showing it to a venture capitalist, potential client, or at public event. In the moment, we usually have no idea what’s happened or how ...

Looking for Buddybuild Alternatives? Try App Center

February 12, 2018 Feb 12, 2018 02/12/18
Visual Studio App Center
(image) With Buddybuild dropping Android support in March, we'd love for you to explore Visual Studio App Center as an option for your new home if you're one of the many Android developers searching for an alternative cloud-based Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) service. Built for all developers and backed by Microsoft...

Boosting Productivity, Quality, and ROI with Automated CI / CD

February 7, 2018 Feb 7, 2018 02/7/18
June Cho
Mobile development moves fast, and it’s hard to stay on top of your game without losing productivity. From Machine Learning to Computer Vision to whatever else comes next, mobile developers are expected to learn and implement emerging technologies as they arrive, without missing a deadline. To make that work, you need to claw back time. In ...

Continuous Quality: Ship Better Apps Faster with Visual Studio App Center

February 2, 2018 Feb 2, 2018 02/2/18
Glenn Wester
Think about one of your mobile apps... How often do you publish updates to it? A couple of times per year? Quarterly? Monthly, bi-weekly? Every day? Multiple times per day? No! That's crazy, right? Or is it? Some world-class app engineering teams are able to consistently release their apps weekly or every two weeks at high quality. How do ...