Visual Studio App Center is an all-in-one service provided by Microsoft, and is mainly used by mobile application developers. Both Xamarin platforms as well as UWP applications are among the supported platforms. The primary goal of App Center is to create an automated Build-Test-Distribute pipeline for mobile projects. App Center is also invaluable for iOS and Android developers since it is the only platform that offers a unified beta distribution for both target runtimes that support telemetry collection and crash analytics. Using Azure DevOps (previously known as Visual Studio Team Service) and App Center, developers can set up a completely automated pipeline for Xamarin applications that will connect the source repository to the final store submission.
This chapter will demonstrate the fundamental features of Azure DevOps and App Center...
