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The latest news, updates and information for mobile developers using Visual Studio App Center

The Ship List: Visual Studio App Center May Update

May 31, 2018 May 31, 2018 05/31/18
Visual Studio App Center
(image)   May has been an exciting month for the Visual Studio App Center team, full of events, new updates, and the start of summer in Seattle. As covered in our recap post, Microsoft Build was a busy event for our team, with some big announcements shared with the community. Between our announced partnership with GitHub, automatic ...

Webhooks and Email Notifications in Visual Studio App Center Build

May 22, 2018 May 22, 2018 05/22/18
Amanda Chew
We’re excited to announce the launch of build status notifications for Visual Studio App Center! Based on your feedback, we know some of you are customizing your build definitions to notify your team about the build status. Now you can say goodbye to these custom steps and simply use the email and webhook notifications feature in App Center ...

Microsoft and GitHub Present: A Solution for Mobile CI

May 7, 2018 May 7, 2018 05/7/18
Visual Studio App Center
Microsoft and GitHub are continuing to empower developers with great tools so they can ship high-quality apps faster and with greater confidence. The new Visual Studio App Center app in the GitHub Marketplace provides mobile developers with a powerful Continuous Integration (CI) experience tailored for GitHub users. With a CI solution at their...

Customize Your Workflow Notifications with App Center and Azure Logic Apps

April 27, 2018 Apr 27, 2018 04/27/18
Simina Pasat
Our customers love App Center because it provides them with a feature-rich Continuous Integration (CI) service that works for the most common scenarios. In many cases, developers need to extend a specific service or feature to make it fit into their existing workflow. As an API-first product, we try to either build these features, or provide ...

App Center: API-First CI/CD for iOS and Android App Development

April 5, 2018 Apr 5, 2018 04/5/18
Visual Studio App Center
It’s common for developers to use Visual Studio App Center alongside all the tools they love and rely on, and respecting those preferences and investments is central to the way we design and think about App Center. We hope to put the power to extend and flex your workflow back in your hands by exposing as much as possible through our public ...

The Ship List: App Center March 2018 Update

March 30, 2018 Mar 30, 2018 03/30/18
Visual Studio App Center
(image)   Spring has arrived in many places, and with it comes fresh new opportunities and ideas. As always, the Visual Studio App Center team is working on features and updates that will enable you to build better iOS and Android apps, as well as ship them faster and with greater confidence. This month, we have a few new releases to ...

Fast Meets Faster: Speed Up Your CodePush Workflow with the React Native Tools Extension for Visual Studio Code

March 23, 2018 Mar 23, 2018 03/23/18
Visual Studio App Center
Recently, we released CodePush functionality in the React Native (RN) Tools extension for VS Code. CodePush is a feature in Visual Studio App Center that allows React Native and Cordova developers to push updates instantly over-the-air to end users. This is the ideal solution for hot-fixing your app when waiting isn’t an option, as well as ...