Visual Studio App Center is a mobile DevOps platform that enables continuous delivery for mobile apps. It automates the app development lifecycle for iOS, Android, Windows, and macOS by integrating build, test, distribute, and monitor services. App Center provides a free tier that offers unlimited apps, builds, distribution, and other features. Paid tiers provide additional build pipelines and minutes for more advanced continuous integration and delivery.

1. Mobile Devops using Visual Studio App Center
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Why Mobile Devops ?
Shortens release time.
Enables creation of better applications
Could dodge inefficiencies and
bottlenecks.
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Why Mobile Devops is hard ?
Multiple Environments for a single app
Every Environment is different
Manual interventions is needed,
irrespective of Automation type
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Why Visual studio app center ?
Continuous everything – Build. Test. Deploy. Engage.
Repeat.
Continuous delivery that works
Automate the app development lifecycle for iOS, Android,
Windows, and macOS
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What is Visual studio app center ?
App Center brings together multiple services, commonly
used by mobile developers, into a single, integrated product.
You can build, test, distribute, and monitor your mobile apps,
and also implement push notifications.
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Visual studio app center supports ?
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Visual studio app center supports ?
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Prerequisites for Android APP
Developer account from Google which costs 25$(One time fee)
Create Keystore from the key store command(JAVA SDK)
 Need to upload the first APK version app to Developer Google
play store
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Prerequisites for IOS APP
Developer account from Apple costs 99$ per year
Mac to create provisional certificate
 Need to upload the first iOS version app to iTunes connect
manually.
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Borrow friend’s for 15 minutes
macincloud.com
Or
Don’t have MAC
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Can I upload ipa from Windows ?
Yes, www.appuploader.net/
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DEMO
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Visual studio app center Costs ?
Free Tier
Build Pay Tier
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Free Tier
Unlimited apps, unlimited organizations, and unlimited teams
Crashes and Analytics features completely free
 1 build pipeline per organization or user account, 240 build
minutes per month, and up to 30 minutes per build
Unlimited distribution to users, and stores
Unlimited use of Code Push/launch tests
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Build Paid Tier
 Upgrade your build pipeline with unlimited build minutes and up
to 60 minutes per build
 Add additional concurrent build pipelines with unlimited build
minutes and up to 60 minutes per build
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References
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• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/appcenter/
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/appcenter/build/ios/uploading-signing-files
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/appcenter/build/android/code-signing
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Thank you
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