
Once the pipeline runs, you should be able to see your brand new app release in the App Center 😎 Pat yourself on the back! Rest is easy.Īpp Center has the concept of adding collaborators to your app. So I am going to skip to keep things simple. The configuration for the release app will be the same in our case. At the time of writing, it could be found under ' displayName : 'Distribute to App Center'

Select Full Access as for Access option.Click on Profile Icon (top-right corner)→ Account Settings → User API Tokens.Let’s do the following steps in the App Center. There are two parts to getting a service connection.įirst, we need to generate an API token which will be used by the AppCenterDistribute task. For that, we will be creating a service connection so that the build agent has necessary credentials to make this link work and where to put the latest build. The details look like this.īefore pushing our signed APK to the App Center, we need to create a link between the Azure DevOps instance and the App Center tenant. In my case, I have created it under my user account. You could either create it under an Organization or a User. If you haven’t already got an app created in App Center, we first need to do that.


The beauty of this is that you can use it as a place to distribute your apps for a target user group for beta testing your app - similar to TestFlight but you can do it for multiple apps. Microsoft App Center is a platform where you can build, test, distribute and monitor your mobile apps. What is Microsoft (Visual Studio) App Center?
