Xamarin Continuous Integration and Delivery Team Services, Test Cloud, and HockeyApp

Learn everything you need to set up a full-featured, automated pipeline for Xamarin development and deployment. Automate everything from the build step through to deployment and delivery to your customer. If you thought this level of automation could be achieved only by large companies with generous funding, think again! You as a single developer, or working in a small team or company, can automate your processes to punch heavier than your weight. What’s more, you can achieve this level of automation completely for free!

This hands-on guide takes you step-by-step from setting up your first automated build all the way to integrated unit testing, and finally through to delivering a high-quality app to your testers and end users. The automation presented in this book saves a lot of frustration and recurring work, providing you more time to focus on building the robust and compelling apps that delight your customers and keep you steps ahead of the competition. Not only does this book teach how to get a grip on consistent quality, but it covers the use of HockeyApp to track events and usage, and to report errors and anomalies back to home base for developers to investigate. Many times it’s possible to detect and fix errors before a user even notices they are there.

This book:

1. Why An Automated Pipeline?

2. Establishing the Prerequisites

3. Creating Your First Build

4. Customizing Your Builds

5. Creating and Running Tests With Xamarin Test Cloud

6. Integrating Tests into Your Builds

7. Preparing for Distribution

8. Releasing Your App

9. A Closer Look at HockeyApp

10. Where to Go from Here

11. Appendix A. Alternative Tooling

Gerald Versluis is a full-stack software developer and Microsoft MVP from Holland. After years of experience working with Xamarin and .NET technologies, he has been involved in numerous different projects, in all kinds of roles. A great number of these projects are Xamarin apps. Not only does Gerald like to code, but he is also keen on spreading his knowledge - as well as gaining some in the bargain. Gerald involves himself in speaking, providing training sessions and writing blogs and articles in his spare time.