Once our application is ready to be tested on real devices, we can start preparing the pipeline so that we can compile and package the application to be deployed to our alpha and beta environments on App Center. Azure DevOps provides out-of-the-box templates for both Xamarin.Android and Xamarin.iOS applications. These pipelines can be extended to include additional testing and static analysis.
Creating a build and release template for Xamarin applications is as trivial as using the Xamarin template for iOS and Android. Additionally, the UWP (if your application supports this platform) template can also be used to create a UWP build:
After the pipeline is created, we will need to make several small adjustments to both platforms to be able to prepare the application so that we can put it on real devices.