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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)

Adding an icon for the Android app

App permissions are set and it's ready to run, so let's add an icon for our app:

  1. Download an icon file that you like and that best suits your phone call app.
  2. Go to Solution Explorer and add the downloaded file to the drawable folder under Resources.
  1. Right-click on drawable | Add | Existing Item, as shown in the following screenshot:
  1. A File Explorer window will open. Navigate to the icon file location, select the icon file, and click Add:
  1. The icon should now be added to the drawable folder of the project:
  1. Rename the icon file to icon.png by right-clicking on the file and then clicking Rename:
  1. After renaming the file, rebuild the project like we did in the previous steps.
  2. Once the rebuild is done successfully, let's add the icon to the application's Manifest file.
  3. Double-click on Properties from Solution Explorer...