Questions tagged [visual-studio-app-center-distribute]

Visual Studio App Center brings together multiple services commonly used by mobile developers into an integrated cloud solution.

Visual Studio App Center brings together multiple services commonly used by mobile developers into an integrated cloud solution. Developers use App Center to Build, Test, and Distribute applications. Once the app's deployed, developers monitor the status and usage of the app using the Analytics and Diagnostics services, and engage with users using the Push service.

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What URL's do we need to open up for App Center to work for internal apps

We use a firewall to block internet access for our corporate users. But we have the ability whitelist important websites that all users have to use. We distributed an android app with the app center sdk installed. What endpoint URL's do we…
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AppCenter: Find and replace string in a file during build

Is it possible to edit a .mm file before it gets compiled in AppCenter? In an attempt to fix a build error, I want to find and replace a string in ../node_modules/react-native/React/CxxBridge/RCTCxxBridge.mm. I tried using sed -i…
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App Center In-App Update Stuck in a loop iOS

I have a Xamarin iOS app that I am trying to distribute in the App Center. It will send out an email and install fine, but when you run it, you get the error MyApp.iOS Wants to use "appcenter.ms" to sign in. I have the option of cancelling or…
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Can this error during appcenter upload in fastlane safely be ignored?

I am using fastlane in an iOS project, and am trying to do uploads of the app to app center for distribution to QA testers. I'm seeing an error from the fastlane appcenter plugin about an invalid distribution group, but then the plugin successfully…
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Building React Native App with VS Appcenter - p12 wrong password?

I'm following this tutorial to get a react native app built using windows to run on my iOS device. When I upload my p12 certificate, I am prompted for the password I supplied when I created it, but this build fails with the following error security:…
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Does the appcenter support connecting to Apple store?

I am trying to publish my app to Apple Store, but I do not see the Apple store option in creating a connection to store panel. Is Apple store supported in Appcenter?
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Xamarin.Forms and App Center: unable to install iOS release on iPhone 5s

I'm working on a Xamarin.Forms app that I would like to deploy for some testers through App Center. In Visual Studio, I'm able to build and deploy the app on a iPhone 5s simulator, even if the iOS version is 11.4. In the info.plist the Minimum…
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AppCenter: build if commit message contains a specific string

Is it possible to configure Microsoft AppCenter to set build frequency on "Build this branch on every push" but to build if commit message contains a specific string for each push.
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Branch based deployment in Microsoft Appcenter

I need to deploy apps to app store for each branch. I have DEV, PROD, Staging and UAT environments. Each has a separate branch. What i need to build and deploy each branch to separate app in app store. The problem is I can only add a single app in…
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Unable to release silent app updates after migrating to app center, takes me to sign up in a microsoft page

I have an android app running on xamarin forms which was originally released under hockeyapp, since the last release, I have migrated to appcenter. During the migration, I had also missed adding the appcenter.distribute nuget package to my project.…
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Xamarin: Is there any way for my testers to download my app from AppCenter without the need to login to AppCenter First?

When I used HockeyApp (which is no longer an option), I could just copy the download link to my app and send it to my testers, and when I published a mandatory update to the app on hockeyapp, they got a dialog in the app and pressed Ok, and the app…
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Azure Release Task App Center Distribute Taking Longer Than an Hour to Complete

I Build and Release Pipeline in Azure devOps to build and release our mobile application to App Center. The Build definitions with build the solution and publish the .apk to an artifact. The Release pipeline downloads the Artifact and push the .apk…
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Cannot install Xamarin.Forms UWP from MS App Center because of Visual C++ 2015 UWP runtime package

After successful build I receive a link for downloading and installing UWP application (target and min framework v1809 b17763), but installation process hangs at 16% immediately after I see notification about installing Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 UWP…
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"Unable to install" on iOS with error "Application is missing the application-identifier entitlement" when compiling with xcode 14.2 xamarin.ios 16.0

We have an old school xamarin forms app that is being built using Azure DevOps. We were using the macOS-11 image for iOS builds which defaults to xcode 13.2.1 and xamarin.ios 15.4. But, Apple is now requiring apps submitted to the store be built…
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AppCenter removes Android app releases after producing some logs within hours

We have an Android app on AppCenter which is supposed to be published whenever we approve pull request to merge into production branch. I recently added extensive logging to catch some bugs but after that, our releases remain in AppCenter Release…