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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)

Using TeamCity with Xamarin for CI/CD

As mentioned in the previous section, TeamCity provides great support for .NET-based applications.

While it can automatically detect build steps from configuration files and project files, it can also detect automatic build triggers from GitHub.

Requirements for using TeamCity

To use TeamCity, knowledge about, and the access to, some hardware and technologies are required to make the setup process smoother:

  • A dedicated build server for TeamCity installation and setup: Ideally the build server should be a standalone server and should not be responsible for other responsibilities such as being a DB server or hosting server.
  • Knowledge of MSBuild: Having knowledge of MSBuild can make this...