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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)

Preparing the build server

In order to compile and build a mobile app on the server, some software need to be installed as it is required for the build process. For an Android application to be built on the build server, it is important to have tools such as the Visual Studio SDK and Visual Studio build tools installed on the server. Also, acquiring Android Keystore is required to sign the application package to be released later. To avoid any configuration issues, it is recommended to install this software under the same user account as TeamCity.

Firewall configuration

For continuous testing, we are using Xamarin Test Cloud, which was described in the previous chapter in detail. For tests to be submitted to Xamarin Test Cloud...