Learn Microsoft Visual Studio App Center: With Xamarin Forms

ISBN-13: 9781484243817 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 330 str.

Sunny Mukherjee

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Getting Started

Chapter Goal: To understand how to sign up for App Center, what software you need for the rest of the book, and where to download the sample app to learn how to integrate App Center

No of pages: 10

Sub -Topics

1.      What is Visual Studio App Center?

2.      What you need for this book

3.      How to set up an Apple Developer account

4.      How to get the sample GitHub Xamarin Forms application

Chapter 2: Creating Builds

Chapter Goal: To learn how to automate iOS and Android builds, how to connect to various repositories, how to add team members and set up groups

No of pages: 20

Sub - Topics  

1.      How to set up a Xamarin Forms iOS build

2.      How to set up a Xamarin Forms Android build

3.      How to set up groups and add team members

4.      Summary 

Chapter 3: Integrating Analytics

Chapter Goal: To learn how to integrate analytics into a Xamarin Forms app

No of pages : 20

Sub - Topics: 

1.      How to download the NuGet package

2.      How to integrate the analytics service into the Xamarin Forms app

3.      Where to view analytics on App Center

4.      Summary 

Chapter 4: Capturing Crashes

Chapter Goal: To learn how to capture unhandled crashes of an app and where to view them on the App Center

No of pages: 20

Sub - Topics:

1.       How to install the NuGet package

2.       How to integrate the crash service into the Xamarin Forms app

3.       How to view crash reports on App Center

4.       Summary

Chapter 5: Setting up Distribution

Chapter Goal: To learn how to set up an Apple certificates and profiles, how to set up distribution groups, and how to configure the build

No of pages: 20

Sub - Topics:  

1.      How to set up Apple certificates and provisioning profiles

2.      How to set up distribution groups on App Center

3.      How to configure the build for continuous deployment

4.      Summary 

Chapter 6: Setting up Push Notifications

Chapter Goal: To learn how to set up push notifications into the Xamarin Forms app

No of pages: 20

Sub - Topics:  

1.      How to download the NuGet package

2.      How to integrate the push service into the Xamarin Forms app

3.      How to set up push service on the Apple Developer portal

4.      How to configure push notifications on App Center

5.      How to send push notifications

6.       Summary

Chapter 7: Setting up Automated Tests

Chapter Goal: To learn how to test on various iOS and Android devices on the App Center cloud

No of pages: 20

Sub - Topics:  

1.       

2.       Summary

O autorze

Sunny Mukherjee is a lead developer. He has close to 15 years of experience in IT where he has worked on multiple platforms, including web, desktop, mobile, and cloud. He has worked in multiple industries, including healthcare, finance, retail, and defense. His other expertise includes software architecture, business plans and presentations, idea brainstorming and pitching, and fictional works. In his free time, he loves reading about astronomy, following the latest science and technology news, riding his bike, traveling to the beach, taking photographs, cooking, meditating, working out, and watching movies. He routinely shares important articles on his LinkedIn profile about .NET, new technologies, new discoveries, and career tips.

Blurb

Use Visual Studio App Center with Xamarin Forms by setting up a DevOps CI/CD pipeline, set up your mobile builds on either iOS or Android, distribute your app to your developers and testers, capture analytics and crashes from your users, communicate to your users with push notifications, and run UI tests on the Microsoft cloud. You will see how to automate and manage the life cycle of your apps through Microsoft's Cloud Service, with a focus on integrating App Center into your Xamarin Forms apps with clear, practical examples. The book starts by showing you how to sign up for App Center and how to create builds, integrate analytics, and capture crashes. Along the way you will set up distribution groups and configure the build in detail. Here, the author will guide you with setting up Apple certificates and provisioning profiles. Finally, you discover how to set up push notifications in the Xamarin Forms app and test it on various iOS and Android devices on the App Center cloud.

Whether you are a developer on a small team or a startup or an architect in a large organization curious about the benefits of Visual Studio App Center, after finishing this book, you will be confident in setting up App Center on your next mobile project. Come join me on this journey through Visual Studio App Center with Xamarin Forms.

You will:

• Create a DevOps CI/CD pipeline for your mobile app on both iOS and Android devices
• Save money without buying multiple iOS and Android devices and instead run cloud UI tests
• Stay informed about build successes and failures by integrating App Center with Slack
• Set up groups and add team members to your groups on App Center
• Distribute your app to your team on either iOS or Android devices
• Capture important user events in your code and report to App Center
• Give a friendly user experience by handling crashes gracefully and reporting to App Center
• Keep and analyze your user’s data on Azure by setting up automatic data export to Azure
• Communicate with your users using iOS and Android notification services from App Center
• Give your users a better experience by sending silent push notifications 
• Include custom data in your push notifications