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Mobile DevOps

By : Rohin Tak, Jhalak Modi
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Mobile DevOps

By: Rohin Tak, Jhalak Modi

Overview of this book

Today's world is all about perfection, and there are hundreds of applications that are released each day out of which only a few succeed. Making sure that the app looks, performs, and behaves as expected is one of the biggest challenge developers face today. The main goal of this book is to teach developers to implement DevOps to build, test, and deliver. This book will teach you to implement Mobile DevOps at every stage of your application's lifecycle with Visual Studio and Xamarin Mobile Lifecycle solutions. Later, it will also show you how to leverage Mobile Center's continuous integration and automated testing to develop a high-quality applications. Next, you’ll see how to mobilize your on-premises data to the cloud and increase your productivity with code reuse. Finally, you’ll discover how to find and fix bugs beforehand, improving the efficiency of your application while it is being developed. By the end of this book, you will be well-versed with Mobile DevOps techniques, delivering high quality and high performance mobile apps.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Setting up our Android Virtual Device for development

Android Emulator will enable us to test our Android application on a computer and we will not require an actual device to test.

  1. Let's click on Tools | Android | Android Emulator Manager:
  1. To make this process easier and simpler, we'll start with the existing mobile templates available for Android Emulator.
  2. Go to the Device Definitions tab shown in the following screen. Once you reach the Device Definitions screen, scroll down until you see Nexus devices in the list:
  1. Select the Nexus device of your choice and click on the Create AVD button on the right-hand side.
  1. Next, you should get a window such as the following, where you can customize your Android Emulator to your requirements:
  1. Fill in all the required details. You can refer to the preceding screenshot for help. Once you click OK, AVD Manager will create...