Didn't know about the auto deloy to store option. Will look into that! I imagine you would want to be careful and not piss off the store provider from excessive app submissions/builds.
Have you blogged about that Nick? Sorry not checked, my blog reading has dropped to zero lately... so many things to learn, so little time From: Nick Randolph Sent: Thursday, September 15, 12:48 PM Subject: RE: Anyone using HockeyApp? To: ozDotNet We're using HockeyApp in anger.... Well a lot less anger now but initially it caused no end of frustration within the team as we started to do daily builds on each app we're working on and having to upload them. Imagine this on a couple of concurrent Xamarin.Forms project where we need to upload all the apps at the end of the day - massive headache as the network came to a halt. We quickly invested more time into integration HockeyApp into our automated builds in VSTS (we use macincloud for our iOS builds). Now at the click of a button we build and deploy to hockeyapp. Just as a side note: VSTS now has the ability to release builds to each of the app stores (Apple, Google and Microsoft). We now automate not only our builds for testing via HockeyApp, we also have automated process for deploying out UAT builds via the respective stores (TestFlight for Apple etc). This took a bit to get setup, but we now have this as a standard process that we do for every project we work on as it is a massive time saver. Nick Randolph | Built to Roam Pty Ltd | Microsoft MVP - Windows Platform Development | +61 412 413 425 | @thenickrandolph | skype:nick_randolph The information contained in this email is confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, you may not disclose or use the information in this email in any way. Built to Roam Pty Ltd does not guarantee the integrity of any emails or attached files. The views or opinions expressed are the author's own and may not reflect the views or opinions of Built to Roam Pty Ltd. From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Greg Keogh Sent: Tuesday, 26 July 2016 9:30 AM To: ozDotNet <ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com> Subject: Re: Anyone using HockeyApp? Pardon me, I have one more public question on this ... In VS2015-3 I used HockeyApp > Distribute > and I sign in fill in the wizard steps and it all looks great, but at the end when I click Finish the dialog closes and nothing happens. I look around, but nothing has happened. What did that wizard do? In the HockeyApp web pages I attempted to create a new app and it prompts me to drag-drop the zip file into the page. I do this, but my whopping 65MB file (re my comments last week) looks like it will take about 2 hours to upload. Hmmm, off to a bad start. -- GK On 25 July 2016 at 18:34, Stephen Price <step...@lythixdesigns.com<mailto:step...@lythixdesigns.com>> wrote: Hmm. I just started working with HockeyApp for my own project. I didn't see anywhere any restrictions so am not even sure what plan I am on. Seems really nice! I've now successfully deployed to Android and iOS devices. the iOS was a big headache until I worked out I had to add the device UDID to the provisioning profile, THEN build it, THEN deploy that IAP for the new device. Shame it doesn't work like the Android where you just invite the user via email and then bam, they can install the app. The UDID identifier is in the docs, but I hadn't read them at all until I got the cryptic "Unable to Download" error it was giving me. Ping me if you get stuck, it wasn't real obvious but everything else just worked. Better than TestFlight (which I only looked at as an option) mainly because I think that only does your iOS devices (and the app has to go through some review process to be available to the external users). I'm wondering what the deployment to Windows Phone users process is (does HockeyApp support em? Doesn't seem to). From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com<mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com> <ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com<mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com>> on behalf of Greg Keogh <gfke...@gmail.com<mailto:gfke...@gmail.com>> Sent: Monday, 25 July 2016 2:51:53 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Anyone using HockeyApp? Folks, I just became aware of HockeyApp<https://www.hockeyapp.net/features/> and I can authenticate into it using my MSDN credentials. It tells me I'm on the default free plan where I can create 2 apps. From a quick eye over the KB articles it looks quite impressive and helpful, but I'll probably need a $30/month account. My subscriptions are starting to mount up and become a small financial burden (MSDN, Office 365, Apple Dev account, Cloud storage, email forwarding, etc) so before I commit to HockeyApp and burn more dosh I must ask if anyone here is using it in anger and getting good value? GK
