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  5. Azure Pipelines vs Visual Studio App Center

Azure Pipelines vs Visual Studio App Center

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Overview

Visual Studio App Center
Visual Studio App Center
Stacks113
Followers232
Votes4
Azure Pipelines
Azure Pipelines
Stacks2.3K
Followers457
Votes14

Azure Pipelines vs Visual Studio App Center: What are the differences?

What is Azure Pipelines? Continuously build, test, and deploy to any platform and cloud. Fast builds with parallel jobs and test execution. Use container jobs to create consistent and reliable builds with the exact tools you need. Create new containers with ease and push them to any registry.

What is Visual Studio App Center? Continuous everything – Build, Tes, Deploy, Engage, Repeat. Automate the lifecycle of your iOS, Android, Windows, and macOS apps. Connect your repo and within minutes build in the cloud, test on thousands of real devices, distribute to beta testers and app stores, and monitor real-world usage with crash and analytics data. All in one place.

Azure Pipelines and Visual Studio App Center can be primarily classified as "Continuous Integration" tools.

Some of the features offered by Azure Pipelines are:

  • Any language, any platform
  • Containers and Kubernetes
  • Extensible

On the other hand, Visual Studio App Center provides the following key features:

  • Build
  • Test
  • Distribute

CodeCarrot, HTML/CSS to Image, and Planetarium are some of the popular companies that use Azure Pipelines, whereas Visual Studio App Center is used by Partipost, Lykon GmbH, and BeachBody. Azure Pipelines has a broader approval, being mentioned in 13 company stacks & 12 developers stacks; compared to Visual Studio App Center, which is listed in 4 company stacks and 4 developer stacks.

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Advice on Visual Studio App Center, Azure Pipelines

Balaramesh
Balaramesh

Apr 20, 2020

Needs adviceonAzure PipelinesAzure Pipelines.NET.NETJenkinsJenkins

We are currently using Azure Pipelines for continous integration. Our applications are developed witn .NET framework. But when we look at the online Jenkins is the most widely used tool for continous integration. Can you please give me the advice which one is best to use for my case Azure pipeline or jenkins.

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Detailed Comparison

Visual Studio App Center
Visual Studio App Center
Azure Pipelines
Azure Pipelines

Automate the lifecycle of your iOS, Android, Windows, and macOS apps. Connect your repo and within minutes build in the cloud, test on thousands of real devices, distribute to beta testers and app stores, and monitor real-world usage with crash and analytics data. All in one place.

Fast builds with parallel jobs and test execution. Use container jobs to create consistent and reliable builds with the exact tools you need. Create new containers with ease and push them to any registry.

Build; Test; Distribute; Crashes; Diagnostics; Analytics; Push; CD/CI;
Any language, any platform; Containers and Kubernetes; Extensible; Deploy to any cloud; Open source; Advanced workflows and features
Statistics
Stacks
113
Stacks
2.3K
Followers
232
Followers
457
Votes
4
Votes
14
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 1
    Show error issues for mobile devices
  • 1
    For Mobile apps diagnostics and tracking
  • 1
    Bug tracking integration
  • 1
    Slack integration
Pros
  • 4
    Easy to get started
  • 3
    Unlimited CI/CD minutes
  • 3
    Built by Microsoft
  • 2
    Yaml support
  • 2
    Docker support
Integrations
GitHub
GitHub
Bitbucket
Bitbucket
Azure DevOps
Azure DevOps
Slack
Slack
.NET Core
.NET Core
Slack
Slack
Python
Python
Ruby
Ruby
Kubernetes
Kubernetes
.NET
.NET
Node.js
Node.js
Linux
Linux
Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Azure
RxJava
RxJava

What are some alternatives to Visual Studio App Center, Azure Pipelines?

Jenkins

Jenkins

In a nutshell Jenkins CI is the leading open-source continuous integration server. Built with Java, it provides over 300 plugins to support building and testing virtually any project.

Ionic

Ionic

Free and open source, Ionic offers a library of mobile and desktop-optimized HTML, CSS and JS components for building highly interactive apps. Use with Angular, React, Vue, or plain JavaScript.

Travis CI

Travis CI

Free for open source projects, our CI environment provides multiple runtimes (e.g. Node.js or PHP versions), data stores and so on. Because of this, hosting your project on travis-ci.com means you can effortlessly test your library or applications against multiple runtimes and data stores without even having all of them installed locally.

Codeship

Codeship

Codeship runs your automated tests and configured deployment when you push to your repository. It takes care of managing and scaling the infrastructure so that you are able to test and release more frequently and get faster feedback for building the product your users need.

Flutter

Flutter

Flutter is a mobile app SDK to help developers and designers build modern mobile apps for iOS and Android.

React Native

React Native

React Native enables you to build world-class application experiences on native platforms using a consistent developer experience based on JavaScript and React. The focus of React Native is on developer efficiency across all the platforms you care about - learn once, write anywhere. Facebook uses React Native in multiple production apps and will continue investing in React Native.

CircleCI

CircleCI

Continuous integration and delivery platform helps software teams rapidly release code with confidence by automating the build, test, and deploy process. Offers a modern software development platform that lets teams ramp.

Xamarin

Xamarin

Xamarin’s Mono-based products enable .NET developers to use their existing code, libraries and tools (including Visual Studio*), as well as skills in .NET and the C# programming language, to create mobile applications for the industry’s most widely-used mobile devices, including Android-based smartphones and tablets, iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.

NativeScript

NativeScript

NativeScript enables developers to build native apps for iOS, Android and Windows Universal while sharing the application code across the platforms. When building the application UI, developers use our libraries, which abstract the differences between the native platforms.

TeamCity

TeamCity

TeamCity is a user-friendly continuous integration (CI) server for professional developers, build engineers, and DevOps. It is trivial to setup and absolutely free for small teams and open source projects.

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