Mobile DevOps : deliver continuous integration and deployment within your mobile applications / Rohin Tak, Jhalak Modi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tak, Rohin, author.

Modi, Jhalak, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mobile computing--Programming.

Mobile computing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (366 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham ; Mumbai : Packt, 2018.

Biography/History:

Tak Rohin: Rohin Tak is a mobile and web development enthusiast with expertise in and several years of experience of. NET technologies. Professionally, Rohin has worked for IBM and OnMobile Global as a. NET developer and Xamarin developer respectively. Rohin is now working as a senior software engineer at LeadSquared, one of the fastest growing sales and marketing automation solutions in India. In his spare time, Rohin is mostly found trekking in the Himalayas and exploring new places around the globe. Modi Jhalak: Jhalak Modi is a DevOps engineer with a deep interest and expertise in implementing large-scale cloud, big data, CI/CD, and automation solutions on a variety of public/private/hybrid clouds, as well as on-premises. She is an AWS Certified Solutions Architect and DevOps professional with more than 10 certifications in trending technologies. She is also a public speaker at AWS events, universities, meet-ups, and corporate trainings. Currently, working with KOGENTiX, Singapore, she has previously worked with Wipro Technologies and Electromech Corporation.

Summary:

Today's world is all about perfection, and there are hundreds of applications that are released each day out of which only a few succeed. Making sure that the app looks, performs, and behaves as expected is one of the biggest challenge developers face today.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright and Credits

Packt Upsell

Contributors

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1: Introduction

Introduction to DevOps

Cultural aspects of DevOps

Before DevOps

After DevOps

Introduction to mobile DevOps

Continuous feedback and continuous development

Importance of backlog in mobile DevOps

DevOps versus mobile DevOps

Development

Testing

Deployment

Monitoring

Continuous delivery

Challenges of applying DevOps to mobiles

Rapid technology adaptation

Multi-platform support

Keeping up with mobile development

Releases

Backward compatibility

Application stores

Feedback mechanism

Summary

Chapter 2: Working with Code Repository Systems

Source code management

Need for source code management

Common terms used in source code management and versioning

Variety of source code management

Centralized version control

Distributed version control

Creating an account with GitHub and using Git to create a repository

Managing organization users and teams

Creating an organization and inviting users to join

Creating a team and adding members to the team

Installing Git on different servers

Installing Git on Windows

Installing Git on CentOS/RHEL servers

Installing Git on Ubuntu/Debian systems

Configuring SSH keys

Chapter 3: Cross-Platform Mobile App Development with Xamarin

History of Xamarin

Why you should learn Xamarin

Benefits of cross-platform development using Xamarin

Introduction to mobile app development

Process involved in mobile app development

Platforms supported by Xamarin

Xamarin on Visual Studio

Extensions and add-ons

Installing Visual Studio and Xamarin on Windows

Setting up our Android Virtual Device for development

Summary.

Chapter 4: Writing Your First Android Application with Xamarin

Create your first Android project

Xamarin solution structure

Creating the UI for the application

Handling user interactions

Adding permissions to Android Manifest

Adding an icon for the Android app

Testing user interaction

Application fundamentals

Android APIs

Resources

Understanding Activities

Activity class

Methods in the Activity class

Activity life cycle

Deploying an application on a mobile device

Enable debugging on the device

Install USB drivers

Connect the device to a computer

Pushing code to a Git repository

Chapter 5: Implementing Automatic Testing Using Xamarin

Understanding the importance of automation testing in the DevOps cycle

Testing a mobile application

Challenges in testing a mobile application

Testing against a real environment

Deploy and test frequently

Continuous feedback

Writing tests with Xamarin.UITest

Xamarin.UITest

Fundamentals of UITest

Understanding the AAA pattern

Adding a UITest project to Solution

Tests.cs

Recall the application code

Elements in the PhoneCallApp

User interactions in the PhoneCallApp

Steps to include in the test

Writing your first UITest

Running your test on your local machine

Using Xamarin Test Cloud to test on multiple devices

Challenges in mobile app testing

Different mobile OS versions

Devices with different screen sizes

Introduction to Xamarin Test Cloud

Test Cloud

Xamarin Test Recorder

Using Xamarin Test Cloud as part of continuous integration

Creating users and organizations on Test Cloud

Users and organizations

Test Cloud hierarchy

Creating a team

Creating a test run for your application

Configuring TeamCity for CI/CD with Chapter 6: Xamarin.

Introduction to continuous integration

CI/CD for a web application

CI/CD for a mobile application

Choosing tools for continuous integration

Various tools for continuous integration

TeamCity

Jenkins

Visual Studio Team Services

Bamboo

Using TeamCity with Xamarin for CI/CD

Requirements for using TeamCity

Steps involved in TeamCity setup

Preparing the build server

Firewall configuration

Installing Visual Studio with Xamarin

Android Keystore

Creating your own Keystore

Creating a build script

Compiling the application

Installing and configuring TeamCity

Creating a TeamCity project

Chapter 7: CI/CD for Android with Visual Studio Team Services

Creating an account in Visual Studio

Getting the code from GitHub

Creating the build definition

Configuring the build definition

Queue build

Triggers - build with every commit

Chapter 8: Deploying Applications on AWS

Creation of an instance

Lightsail

Terraform

Installation

Configuration files

Creating instances

Modifying instances

Terminating instances

Example of instance creation using Terraform

EC2 CLI

Creating an Elastic Load Balancer, launch configuration, and Auto Scaling Groups

Elastic Load Balancer

Auto Scaling Groups

IAM roles

Chapter 9: Monitoring and Optimizing Application

API level monitoring

Why API monitoring is critical

Important factors in API monitoring

Developer's role in handling API unavailability

Various tools for API monitoring

Using Test Cloud for monitoring

Benefits of monitoring with Test Cloud

PhoneCallApp

Xamarin Store app

Using Android monitoring tools

Chapter 10: Debugging the Application

Terminology

Debugging with Xamarin on Visual Studio

Using the output window.

Using the Console class to show useful output

Using breakpoints

Setting a conditional breakpoint

Stepping through the code

Using a watch

QuickWatch

Adding a watch

Debugging Mono class libraries

Android debug log

Accessing logcat from the command line

Writing to the debug log

Debugging Git connections

Chapter 11: Case Studies

Case study 1 - Hello World GUI

Prerequisites

Case study 2 - ButtonWidget

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Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781788295741

1788295749

OCLC:

1463579516