App Center for Xamarin

Visual Studio App Center, which expands on its predecessor, HockeyApp, and its feature set, is a mobile application life cycle management platform that's used to easily build, test, distribute, and collect telemetry data from iOS, Android, Windows, and macOS applications. Its intrinsic integration with various repository options and build capabilities can even be used to migrate the development and release pipeline from Azure DevOps. Visual Studio App Center, just like Azure DevOps, follows a freemium subscription model, where the developers can access most of its functionality with a free subscription; they would need to have a paid subscription for quota enhancements on certain features.

Integrating with the source repository and builds

Even though we have already set up our source repository on Azure DevOps and its associated build pipelines, App Center can be used for the same purpose.

For instance, if we were to set up the iOS build pipeline...