Visual Studio Mobile Center: Fast and Fun Continuous Delivery for Mobile apps
summary
Shows that teams move from yearly to weekly release cadences (examples: 4 vs 90 releases, 175 releases a year for top apps) and demonstrates Visual Studio Mobile Center wiring a Xamarin iOS app from commit to distribution: builds on Mac in the cloud, automated Test Cloud UI tests run in parallel on real devices, crash reporting surfaces a reproducible stack trace (demo finds a crash found switching to metric), plus analytics and segmented push — CI pipeline stands up in minutes and the demo build and tests complete successfully.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Start
- 4:04Release cadences compared
- 5:27Key Benefits of Continuous Delivery
- 7:46Emotional cycle of manual delivery
- 11:38Apple review cycle time
- 13:17Complexity and Novelty
- 16:20There is Hope!
- 18:41MyDriving Mobile & Azure IOT
- 23:45What are the steps involved in delivering customer value for my iOS app and learning from that?
- 24:46Value stream mapping for iOS development "What are the steps involved in delivering value for my iOS app?"
- 25:40Incrementalism: A small automated pipeline
- 27:16Automated UI Testing
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