Xamarin Continuous Integration and Delivery : Team Services Test Cloud and HockeyApp 1. Why An Automated Pipeline 2. Establishing the Prerequisites 3. Creating Your First Build 4. Customizing Your Builds 5. Creating and Running Tests With Xamarin Test Cloud 6. Integrating Tests into Your Builds 7. Preparing for Distribution 8. Releasing Your App 9. A Closer Look at HockeyApp 10. Where to Go from Here 11. Appendix A: Alternative Tooling Learn everything you need to set up a full featured automated pipeline for Xamarin development and deployment. Automate everything from the build step through to deployment and delivery to your customer. If you thought this level of automation could be achieved only by large companies with generous funding think again! You as a single developer or working in a small team or company can automate your processes to punch heavier than your weight. What’s more you can achieve this level of automation completely for free! This hands on guide takes you step by step from setting up your first automated build all the way to integrated unit testing and finally through to delivering a high quality app to your testers and end users. The automation presented in this book saves a lot of frustration and recurring work providing you more time to focus on building the robust and compelling apps that delight your customers and keep you steps ahead of the competition. Not only does this book teach how to get a grip on consistent quality but it covers the use of HockeyApp to track events and usage and to report errors and anomalies back to home base for developers to investigate. Many times it’s possible to detect and fix errors before a user even notices they are there. This book: Teaches the necessity of an automated development pipeline Helps you set up an automated pipeline for Xamarin development Integrates testing (on physical devices!) to ensure high quality apps