Overview

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. 

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Author:   Sunny Mukherjee
Publisher:   APress
Imprint:   APress
Edition:   1st ed.
Weight:   0.662kg
ISBN:  

9781484243817

ISBN 10:   1484243811
Pages:   330
Publication Date:   01 April 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Getting Started Chapter Goal: To understand how to sign up for App Center, what software you need for the rest of the book, and where to download the sample app to learn how to integrate App Center No of pages: 10 Sub -Topics 1.      What is Visual Studio App Center? 2.      What you need for this book 3.      How to set up an Apple Developer account 4.      How to get the sample GitHub Xamarin Forms application Chapter 2: Creating Builds Chapter Goal: To learn how to automate iOS and Android builds, how to connect to various repositories, how to add team members and set up groups No of pages: 20 Sub - Topics   1.      How to set up a Xamarin Forms iOS build 2.      How to set up a Xamarin Forms Android build 3.      How to set up groups and add team members 4.      Summary  Chapter 3: Integrating Analytics Chapter Goal: To learn how to integrate analytics into a Xamarin Forms app No of pages : 20 Sub - Topics:  1.      How to download the NuGet package 2.      How to integrate the analytics service into the Xamarin Forms app 3.      Where to view analytics on App Center 4.      Summary  Chapter 4: Capturing Crashes Chapter Goal: To learn how to capture unhandled crashes of an app and where to view them on the App Center No of pages: 20 Sub - Topics: 1.       How to install the NuGet package 2.       How to integrate the crash service into the Xamarin Forms app 3.       How to view crash reports on App Center 4.       Summary Chapter 5: Setting up Distribution Chapter Goal: To learn how to set up an Apple certificates and profiles, how to set up distribution groups, and how to configure the build No of pages: 20 Sub - Topics:   1.      How to set up Apple certificates and provisioning profiles 2.      How to set up distribution groups on App Center 3.      How to configure the build for continuous deployment 4.      Summary  Chapter 6: Setting up Push Notifications Chapter Goal: To learn how to set up push notifications into the Xamarin Forms app No of pages: 20 Sub - Topics:   1.      How to download the NuGet package 2.      How to integrate the push service into the Xamarin Forms app 3.      How to set up push service on the Apple Developer portal 4.      How to configure push notifications on App Center 5.      How to send push notifications 6.       Summary Chapter 7: Setting up Automated Tests Chapter Goal: To learn how to test on various iOS and Android devices on the App Center cloud No of pages: 20 Sub - Topics:   1.        2.       Summary

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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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