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Microsoft's recommended replacements for App Center

Microsoft's recommended replacements for App Center - .NET MAUI Tutorial

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Microsoft's recommended replacements for App Center

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- [Instructor] When Microsoft announced the retirement of App Center on the 31st of March, 2025, they also included a list of products that should be used to replace the features of App Center. The interesting thing is they only focused on iOS and Android, further cementing the idea that App Center was primarily used for mobile application development. Another interesting thing that we can glean from Microsoft's documentation is the recommendation on what to replace App Center's build services with. With App Center retired, Microsoft has two major competing products for build services, Azure Pipelines and GitHub Pipelines. In this documentation at least, Microsoft recommended people move to Azure Pipelines. Microsoft also included a tool to export App Center builds into Azure Pipeline YAML files. Unfortunately, this tool is no longer available. App Center also had some services to allow automated tests, including some Appium tests, to be run on various physical iOS and Android…

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