App Center: Continuous Integration and Delivery for iOS

Learn when and how to leverage Visual Studio App Center to automate and manage the lifecycle of an iOS application.

1. What Is App Center?

• Code more, manage less
• What is App Center?
• Create an App Center account
• Mac setup

2. The Sample Application

• Introducing the sample app
• Fork the sample app GitHub repo

3. Build

• Add an iOS/Swift app to App Center
• Build your app in App Center

4. Test

• Testing in App Center
• Create a unit test with XCTest
• Run your XCTest in App Center

5. SDK Integration

• Add the App Center SDK to your Xcode project
• Identify your app to App Center
• Start the App Center services

6. Distribute

• Create a provisioning profile
• Distribution with App Center
• Create a distribution group in App Center
• Register a device in the Apple Developer portal
• Distribute a new release
• Enable in-app updates

7. Diagnostics

• Generate a test crash
• Upload debug symbols for your crash report

8. Analytics

• View analytics reports
• Track custom analytics events
• Export analytics data to Azure

9. Push

• Configure push notifications
• Define a push audience
• Send a push notification