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Mobile DevOps

You're reading from Mobile DevOps Deliver continuous integration and deployment within your mobile applications

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788296243

Length 376 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

C#

Tools

Xamarin Studio

Concepts

Continuous Integration

Authors (2):

Tak

Modi

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Title Page

Copyright and Credits

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Contributors

Preface

1. Introduction FREE CHAPTER

2. Working with Code Repository Systems

3. Cross-Platform Mobile App Development with Xamarin

4. Writing Your First Android Application with Xamarin

5. Implementing Automatic Testing Using Xamarin

6. Configuring TeamCity for CI/CD with Xamarin

7. CI/CD for Android with Visual Studio Team Services

8. Deploying Applications on AWS

9. Monitoring and Optimizing Application

10. Debugging the Application

11. Case Studies

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Index

Installing Visual Studio and Xamarin on Windows

To install Visual Studio and Xamarin on a Windows machine, follow these steps:

Go to https://www.visualstudio.com/downloads/.
When you open the preceding URL in a browser, you'll get a screen like this:

You can see there are several editions of Visual Studio available for developers.
You can choose the version best suited to your requirements. If you just want to learn Xamarin using Visual Studio, or if you are an individual developer looking for a free version, then Visual Studio Community Edition is best suited for you.
Click on Free download provided under Visual Studio Community 2017.
You should get a Visual Studio installer file downloaded on your computer.
Open the installer file and you should see a screen like this:

Click on the Continue button to begin the installation process.
It can take some time to load the installers available, and you might see the following screen:

The next screen let you to select Workloads:

Now, if you are new to Visual...

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Authors (2)

Tak

Tak

Rohin Tak is a mobile and web development enthusiast with expertise in and several years of experience of .NET technologies. Professionally, Rohin has worked for IBM and OnMobile Global as a .NET developer and Xamarin developer respectively. Rohin is now working as a senior software engineer at LeadSquared, one of the fastest growing sales and marketing automation solutions in India. In his spare time, Rohin is mostly found trekking in the Himalayas and exploring new places around the globe.

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Modi

Modi

Jhalak Modi is a DevOps engineer with a deep interest and expertise in implementing large-scale cloud, big data, CI/CD, and automation solutions on a variety of public/private/hybrid clouds, as well as on-premises. She is an AWS Certified Solutions Architect and DevOps professional with more than 10 certifications in trending technologies. She is also a public speaker at AWS events, universities, meet-ups, and corporate trainings. Currently, working with KOGENTiX, Singapore, she has previously worked with Wipro Technologies and Electromech Corporation.

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