DevOps

Azure DevOps Settings for Xamarin iOS 13 and Android 10 Apps

Settings up continuous integration can be tricky when there are new versions coming out. Recently Visual Studio 2019 updated to support Xcode 11, iOS 13, Android 10, .NET Core 3, and C# 8. What a whirlwind of new updates that CI servers got all around the same time! This means that as you were updating your apps your hosted machines also got updated and probably broke your builds :(. My good friend Jonathan Peppers wrote an amazing tool called Boots [https://devblogs.microsoft.com/xamarin/boots-…

James Montemagno

Super Simple Git Tagging & Releases in Azure DevOps

I am going to be honest with all of you, I never really understood Git tags [https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Basics-Tagging] and releases inside of GitHub. In my old TFVC days I would just create a branch with the name of the release and call that my "tag" so I could always go back to it. What sparked my interest was seeing a bunch of popular projects that I was using combine tags with the GitHub releases. I started reading the documentation and still wasn't sold on it because I…

James Montemagno

Enhanced Mobile App Versioning in Azure DevOps (VSTS) with Mobile Tasks

A little over a year ago, I introduced my Mobile App Tasks Extensions for iOS and Android [https://montemagno.com/introducing-vsts-mobile-build-tasks-extension/] into the Azure DevOps (VSTS) marketplace. For iOS and Android developers it made the tasks of versioning and adjusting package names a breeze. They were written completely in TypeScript with VS Code [https://montemagno.com/building-vsts-tasks-with-typescript-and-vs-code/] and of course are open source on GitHub [https://github.com/james…

James Montemagno

Building Xamarin.iOS Apps in Azure DevOps (VSTS) with Hosted macOS Agents!

Azure DevOps (VSTS) [http://visualstudio.com/team-services] is quickly becoming one of my favorite products that Microsoft creates for developers. It helps any developer writing apps in any language build, test, and deploy their applications. On top of that it has free unlimited private Git repos, work item tracking and kanban board, test, release management, and so much more! What is cool is you can use some of it or all of it, up to you. So if you have your code in GitHub, no problem, want to…

James Montemagno

Using Visual Studio Mobile Center with a Azure DevOps (VSTS) Code Repo

So, this is pretty awesome! Today, the Mobile Center team rolled out a huge update to Visual Studio Mobile Center [http://mobile.azure.com]enabling you to build your iOS and Android apps in the cloud from any GitHub, BitBucket, or Azure DevOps (VSTS) code repository! This is great because VSTS offers FREE unlimited private repos for your code with a git backend. Mobile Center offers up build, test, distribute, analytics, and backend services for any mobile app written in any language. It couldn’…

James Montemagno

Deploying an ASP.NET Core app to Linux on Azure App Service

You probably wouldn’t expect this blog post from me as I run away from building any web apps, but I have been messing around with ASP.NET Core inside of Visual Studio for Mac. I thought it would be really cool to take our default app for items and deploy it to an Azure Linux based App Service. Because… why not?!?! Also, I will make Hanselman [http://twitter.com/shanselman]proud. So, first things first.. The backend. My Items on ASP.NET Core If you head over to your Visual Studio for Mac [https…

James Montemagno

Version Bumping iOS & Android apps in Azure DevOps (VSTS)

I love Continuous Integration and Deployment for mobile applications and have given several talks on it in the past. It streamlines your entire development process and makes it drop dead simple to simply commit code and have everything you don’t want to do manually be taken care of for you. This means build, test, bump versions, and ship off to testers with integrations like HockeyApp. Notice I mention “bump versions”, which is actually really important. Every build should be assigned a unique n…

James Montemagno

Tags

Azure DevOps Settings for Xamarin iOS 13 and Android 10 Apps

Super Simple Git Tagging & Releases in Azure DevOps

Enhanced Mobile App Versioning in Azure DevOps (VSTS) with Mobile Tasks

Building Xamarin.iOS Apps in Azure DevOps (VSTS) with Hosted macOS Agents!

Using Visual Studio Mobile Center with a Azure DevOps (VSTS) Code Repo

Deploying an ASP.NET Core app to Linux on Azure App Service

Version Bumping iOS & Android apps in Azure DevOps (VSTS)

James Montemagno

Tags