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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)

Triggers - build with every commit

Now we have covered how to configure the build steps and queue them manually. In continuous integration, it is important to automate the build, especially whenever developers check code in. This helps keep the latest build up to date with all the changes made and lets developers know of any issues in the build at earlier stages of development.

Follow these steps now to set up triggers and automate the build:

  1. Click on the Triggers tab in the configurations section shown in previous steps:
  1. In the Triggers tab, in the left pane, you'll see a section for Continuous integration, under which you will find your repository linked.
  2. Click on that link to open the continuous integration section on the right-hand side:
  1. Check the Enable continuous integration box.
  2. You'll notice there is one more checkbox, to Batch changes while build in progress...