by Nick DeJesus

Continuous Integration with Microsoft App Center

Brief List of Things that Suck

• Drinking orange juice after brushing teeth
• The way Game of Thrones ended
• Deploying React Native apps manually

List of Things that Suck about deploying things manually

• Xcode is bad
• Managing provisioning profiles
• Apple
• iOS
• Google
• Android
• Needing to be an organized person
• Forgetting to tick version up +1
• Forgetting passwords (yikes)
• Getting a team on the same page

• Google Updates every 2 days
• Apple also updating things
• Time-consuming
• Losing track of provisioning profiles
• Xcode seriously is bad
• Android
• Not using fast lane
• No one else does it this way

Fastlane

• Helps automate tedious processes
• Handle code signing
• Automate deployment from beta to full release
• Flexible enough to work with many CI tools

Enter App Center

What does App Center do?

• Continuous Integration
• Testing
• Analytics
• Push Notifications
• Live updates (Code Push)

Distributing Apps

Distribute > Groups

Distributing Apps

Distribute > Groups > Group > New Release

Distributing Apps

Distribute > Stores

Distributing Apps

Distribute > Stores > Store Details

Code Push

Distribute > Code Push

Building

Build > Branches

Building

Build > Branches > Configure

• Build Scripts
• Build Frequency
• Android App Bundle
• Auto increment version code
• Build Number Format
  • Build ID
  • Time Stamp
• Run unit tests
• Lint source code

Building

Build > Branches > Configure

• Upload Keystore (Android)
• Upload Provisioning Profiles and cert (iOS)
• Configure Environment Variables

Building

Build > Branches > Configure

• Testing on real devices
• Distribute to different groups/stores
• Status badges

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