Deploying mobile applications

One type of application that needs a special approach to deployment is a mobile application. These applications are often not downloaded and installed by end users directly and are mostly consumed via an app store on their mobile device.

Visual Studio App Center is a Microsoft offering that can be used for distributing (deploying) mobile applications to end users via app stores, but also via private distribution lists.

You can discover more about App Center here: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/app-center/.

After logging into App Center, you will be taken to the following screen:

Figure 6.17 – Adding a new app

Here, you can create a new app definition. An app definition should be created for every target operating system of an application. If the same application is going to be deployed to both Android and iOS, at least two apps have to be created.

Creating an app is done by performing the following steps...