Creating a release pipeline for your mobile applications

I’m currently working on a release pipeline for our mobile applications, making it easy to build, deploy and test the mobile solutions we are creating on top of the Xamarin platform.

Everyone who ever tried to publish a mobile application to a store(Apple AppStore, Google Play Store, Microsoft App Store,…) knows that it is cumbersome process requiring things like certificates, keystores, a lot of configuration work and so on… To optimize the process we went fully automated by using a combination of the following tools:

Visual Studio Team Services
Hosted Build Service
MacInCloud
Xamarin Test Cloud
HockeyApp

A great help during our journey was the DevOps blog series by Richard Woollcott:

Xamarin DevOps VSTS – Getting Started: http://www.thexamarinjournal.com/xamarin-dev-ops-with-vsts-getting-started/
Xamarin DevOps with VSTS - Setup iOS CI Builds With MacinCloud: http://www.thexamarinjournal.com/xamarin-dev-ops-with-vsts-setup-ios-ci-builds-with-macincloud/
Xamarin DevOps with VSTS - Setup Android CI Builds: http://www.thexamarinjournal.com/xamarin-dev-ops-with-vsts-setup-android-ci-builds/
Xamarin DevOps with VSTS - Versioning Apps For HockeyApp: http://www.thexamarinjournal.com/xamarin-dev-ops-with-vsts-versioning-apps-for-hockeyapp/
Xamarin DevOps with VSTS - Deploying To HockeyApp: http://www.thexamarinjournal.com/xamarin-dev-ops-with-vsts-deploying-to-hockeyapp-and-devices/
Xamarin DevOps with VSTS - Deploying To Devices From HockeyApp: http://www.thexamarinjournal.com/xamarin-dev-ops-with-vsts-deploying-to-devices-from-hockeyapp-2/
Xamarin DevOps with VSTS - Setup a Cross Platform Build Agent on OSX: http://www.thexamarinjournal.com/xamarin-devops-with-vsts-setup-a-cross-platform-build-agent-on-osx/
Xamarin DevOps with VSTS - Setup a Cross Platform Build Agent on Windows: http://www.thexamarinjournal.com/xamarin-devops-with-vsts-setup-a-cross-platform-build-agent-on-windows/

DevToys–A swiss army knife for developers

As a developer there are a lot of small tasks you need to do as part of your coding, debugging and testing activities. DevToys is an offline windows app that tries to help you with these tasks. Instead of using different websites you get a fully offline experience offering help for a large list of tasks. Many tools are available. Here is the current list: Converters JSON <> YAML Timestamp Number Base Cron Parser Encoders / Decoders HTML URL Base64 Text & Image GZip JWT Decoder Formatters JSON SQL XML Generators Hash (MD5, SHA1, SHA256, SHA512) UUID 1 and 4 Lorem Ipsum Checksum Text Escape / Unescape Inspector & Case Converter Regex Tester Text Comparer XML Validator Markdown Preview Graphic Color B

Help! I accidently enabled HSTS–on localhost

I ran into an issue after accidently enabling HSTS for a website on localhost. This was not an issue for the original website that was running in IIS and had a certificate configured. But when I tried to run an Angular app a little bit later on http://localhost:4200 the browser redirected me immediately to https://localhost . Whoops! That was not what I wanted in this case. To fix it, you need to go the network settings of your browser, there are available at: chrome://net-internals/#hsts edge://net-internals/#hsts brave://net-internals/#hsts Enter ‘localhost’ in the domain textbox under the Delete domain security policies section and hit Delete . That should do the trick…

Azure DevOps/ GitHub emoji

I’m really bad at remembering emoji’s. So here is cheat sheet with all emoji’s that can be used in tools that support the github emoji markdown markup: All credits go to rcaviers who created this list.

The art of simplicity

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