Chapter 1, Introduction, introduces you to the world of DevOps and mobile DevOps while explaining the differences between them. The chapter will also describe the various challenges you may encounter while applying DevOps to your mobile development.
Chapter 2, Working with Code Repository Systems, explores code repository systems and discusses various versioning tools. The chapter focuses mainly on Git to dive deep into source versioning.
Chapter 3, Cross-Platform Mobile App Development with Xamarin, introduces Xamarin and cross-platform mobile application development. The chapter also explains the steps involved in setting up Xamarin and Visual Studio on a Windows machine.
Chapter 4, Writing Your First Android Application with Xamarin, explains the fundamentals of an Android application. It also describes the steps involved in creating an Android application project using Xamarin and building UI for the application while discussing how to deploy the application on a mobile device.
Chapter 5, Implementing Automatic Testing Using Xamarin, discusses the importance of automation testing in the DevOps cycle and dives deep into writing automation test cases for a Xamarin.Android application project. In addition, you'll also learn how to set up Xamarin Test Cloud and run automation tests for your Android application on it.
Chapter 6, Configuring TeamCity For CI/CD with Xamarin, introduces you to continuous integration while discussing various tools available for continuous integration. The chapter let's you dive deep into continuous integration using TeamCity and explains various configuration and other setup steps involved in using TeamCity as a CI tool.
Chapter 7, CI/CD for Android with Visual Studio Team Services, deals with continuous integration and continuous delivery using Visual Studio Team Service. It explains the steps involved from creating an account in Visual Studio to configuring and queuing the build for a continuous build process.
Chapter 8, Deploying Applications on AWS, describes deploying and migrating your applications to cloud. It explains various steps involved in cloud deployment from creation of instance to creating ELB and configuring end nodes using tools such as Terraform, AWS CLI, and LightSail.
Chapter 9, Monitoring and Optimizing Application, takes you through different levels of monitoring, starting from the API level monitoring and moving on to using the Android monitoring tool. It also includes monitoring steps for Test Cloud.
Chapter 10, Debugging the Application, explains that troubleshooting is a common issue in Xamarin, and covers various deployment life cycles. It includes debugging the Xamarin code, troubleshooting the Android Emulator, debugging Mono's class libraries, and finally, debugging Git connections.
Chapter 11, Case Studies, goes through the entire process of mobile DevOps, from mobile application development and integration to continuous testing and deployment using two case studies.