In the mobile development world, it is very important to iterate fast—users want new features and expect quality, and if you cannot deliver on those expectations, you will certainly feel it in your ratings and reviews. One of the best ways to ensure that you are shipping quality apps and features is to employ DevOps. DevOps is where the technical and operational sides of app development meet. Proper DevOps integrates business operations with tools, resulting in a more automated and continuous release process. DevOps tools typically combine continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD)—
automation of the building, testing, and distributing of your app and monitoring it. CI/CD and monitoring together create a seamless loop where CI/CD provides an output of testable features, and monitoring provides an input of feedback and analytics on those features. This continuous loop, when implemented properly, enables development teams to rapidly release new features that maintain the quality their users expect.

In this last chapter of the book, we will focus on analytics and crash reporting tools and how they can help you continuously monitor and improve your app. Specifically, we will take a look at Visual Studio App Center and how to integrate its SDK libraries into the TripLog Xamarin.Forms mobile app that we have created in this book.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

• Mobile app analytics and crash reporting
• Adding the Visual Studio App Center SDK to the TripLog app