Mobile DevOps is the future of continuous integration and continuous delivery for mobile application development, and is a very important requirement of today's fast-paced development culture. While DevOps has been implemented and adopted by most fast-growing development teams today, mobile DevOps is yet to be used by the majority of the mobile development world. It is something that can improve integration and delivery, as well as provide a greater feedback mechanism and early defect capturing tools.
Mobile DevOps comes with its own implementation challenges, and with various mobile platforms out there on millions of devices and with different aspect ratios, it is only becoming more important to use tools that streamline testing on physical devices and delivery to customers while providing a quick feedback mechanism to developers.
In this book, we'll be using Xamarin to explore mobile application development fundamentals and tools. Xamarin is a cross-platform mobile application development framework from Microsoft that can be used to create iOS, Android, and Windows apps using a shareable code base and design. Apart from Xamarin, we'll be using other tools from Microsoft's tool belt, such as Xamarin Test Cloud and Visual Studios Team Services, to dive deep into the different phases of mobile DevOps.
The main motivation to use Xamarin is its ability to develop cross-platform applications and applications with great integration with Microsoft's other widely used tools for different phases of the application development cycle.
By the end of this book, you should not only be accustomed with mobile DevOps and mobile application development, but you should also be able to implement, configure, and troubleshoot each and every step involved in the mobile DevOps life cycle in your new and/or existing mobile application projects using the popular tools that are available.