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Mastering Xamarin.Forms

You're reading from   Mastering Xamarin.Forms App architecture techniques for building multi-platform, native mobile apps with Xamarin.Forms 4

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2019
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ISBN-13 9781839213380
Length 200 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Visual Studio App Center

Visual Studio App Center is a service provided by Microsoft that offers a comprehensive mobile DevOps toolchain. One of the biggest barriers to entry when it comes to setting up DevOps tooling is the amount of configuration, integration, and maintenance that's involved. In my experience, setting up DevOps tools means integrating several services, writing tons of scripts, and, typically, dedicating a developer to maintaining the build server. App Center offers a streamlined solution that minimizes configuration and pretty much eliminates integration and maintenance, since it's a centralized and hosted service.

All of the components of App Center can be accessed via the App Center website or API. The monitoring components also require the App Center SDK to be included in your mobile app package. For Xamarin apps, the SDK is available via NuGet.

This chapter is primarily focused on the app monitoring tools within Visual Studio App Center...

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