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What you will learn in this course?
What you will learn in this course?
In this course, you will learn the fundamentals of CI/CD which is short for Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery and be able to apply these fundamentals in your Xamarin development process.The word Deployment is often used in place of Delivery but effectively means the same thing.These skills are essential to maximize your career potential in 2019 and beyond, because more and more companies are adopting these development practices requiring new employees or freelancers to be well versed in these concepts.
What is Continuous Integration (CI) ?
CI is the practice of merging all programmers current working copies to a shared mainline on a regular basis (usually several times a day).
A developer checks out a working copy of the code base prior to making a change. Over time as other developers check out and make changes, this checked out working copy of the source code base gets out of date, potentially requiring more and more work by developers to actually check their completed changes back in to the main repository.
Without using CI it can become really difficult to merge all these changes and can lead to it taking more time to merge changes back into the main source code base than it took to make the the change itself.
CI seeks to eliminate this problem by making sure all developers integrate early and often with the goal to reduce rework and ultimately save cost and time. This involves all developers merging their code back into the main repository multiple times a day.
An added bonus is that each programmer who is merging changes needs to build and run (and pass) all unit tests which usually run automatically meaning the code base is easier to work with and merge changes into and is potentially more stable as a result.
What is Continuous Delivery or Deployment (CD) ?
This extends CI to ensure that new changes to software can be released to clients quicker, but in a more sustainable way. It takes the advantages of CI from a development perspective (automated testing, on code check-in, etc) allowing the actual code base to be built and new releases to be automatically released to the client, effectively meaning a new version can be deployed to the client by a click of a button.
CI/CD concepts.
By adhering to a CI/CD development process, the code base can be built and released more quickly, and is in a more stable state overall. These are some of the reasons why more and more companies are adopting a CI/CD development process in 2019 and beyond.
Key topics in this course.
1. Continuous Integration
2. Continuous Delivery
3. App Center
4. GitHub Pull Requests
5. Branch protection
6. UI Tests
7. App Diagnostics
8. App Analytics
What will you learn?
• Learn how to track errors and crashes in your apps.
• Learn how to track any event triggered within your apps.
• Apply complete CI/CD flows in your app development process.
• Use GitHub to trigger code checks and app distribution to users.
• Use App Center to automate checks and protect important branches.
• Leverage App Center to automatically create builds on every merge.
• Automate the distribution of a new build to beta testers.
• Automate the distribution of new releases to the Apple and Google app stores.
• Learn to create UI tests for your Xamarin Forms apps.
• Focus on the development of features, leave the build and distribution to App Center.
• Improve teamwork with automatic builds and checks that improve the quality of your merges.
• Enable product discovery with the help of Analytics in the App Center.
• Test your app in a wide array of cloud-hosted physical devices.
Differences with other CI/CD courses.
While there are other CI/CD courses out there, most of them are too general. This course is completely tailored to Xamarin developers, this way you can immediately start applying what you learn in your app development process. Because of this, the course also covers topics not normally found on other CI/CD courses, such as UI Tests for Xamarin apps.
Who is the course aimed at?The course does not require any previous CI/CD or DevOps experience, although some basic Git & GitHub experience is desirable.While this is a CI/CD course, it is oriented to Xamarin students, so some basic Xamarin experience is required.
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Read about CI/CD
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Gain a solid understanding of CI/CD concepts and best practices by reading this foundational book.
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Purchase the book from your preferred retailer.
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Read the book thoroughly, taking notes and highlighting key concepts.
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Complete the exercises and examples provided in the book.
Create a study guide or knowledge base
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Improve retention by organizing and summarizing key concepts from the course.
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Gather notes, assignments, and other course materials.
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Organize and categorize the materials.
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Create a study guide or knowledge base that summarizes the key concepts.
Join a study group or online community
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Enhance your learning experience by collaborating with peers, sharing knowledge, and engaging in discussions.
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Search for study groups or online communities focused on CI/CD for Xamarin.
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Join the group or community.
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Participate in discussions and ask questions.
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Share your knowledge and experiences with others.
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Create a CI/CD pipeline for a Xamarin app
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Familiarize yourself with the CI/CD process by building a pipeline for your own Xamarin app.
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Set up a repository for your Xamarin app
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Create a CI/CD pipeline in your repository
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Configure the pipeline to build and test your app
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Configure the pipeline to deploy your app to a testing environment
Practice using GitHub Pull Requests
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Improve your understanding of GitHub Pull Requests by practicing using them in a real-world scenario.
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Create a new pull request on GitHub
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Review a pull request created by someone else
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Merge a pull request
Automate builds and tests
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Strengthen your CI/CD skills by practicing how to automate builds and tests using CI/CD tools.
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Automated Builds
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Set up a CI/CD pipeline for your Xamarin project.
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Configure the pipeline to automatically build your code.
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Add automated tests to your pipeline.
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Run your pipeline and verify that the builds and tests pass.
Write a blog post about your experience with CI/CD and Xamarin
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Share your knowledge and insights about CI/CD and Xamarin by writing a blog post.
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Choose a topic to write about
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Research your topic
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Write your blog post
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Publish your blog post
Mentor junior developers or students
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Strengthen your understanding by sharing your knowledge and providing guidance to others.
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Identify opportunities to mentor junior developers or students.
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Share your knowledge and experiences.
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Provide guidance and support.
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Reflect on your mentoring experience and identify areas for improvement.
Read about CI/CD
Show steps
Gain a solid understanding of CI/CD concepts and best practices by reading this foundational book.
Show steps
- Purchase the book from your preferred retailer.
- Read the book thoroughly, taking notes and highlighting key concepts.
- Complete the exercises and examples provided in the book.
Create a study guide or knowledge base
Show steps
Improve retention by organizing and summarizing key concepts from the course.
Show steps
- Gather notes, assignments, and other course materials.
- Organize and categorize the materials.
- Create a study guide or knowledge base that summarizes the key concepts.
Join a study group or online community
Show steps
Enhance your learning experience by collaborating with peers, sharing knowledge, and engaging in discussions.
Show steps
- Search for study groups or online communities focused on CI/CD for Xamarin.
- Join the group or community.
- Participate in discussions and ask questions.
- Share your knowledge and experiences with others.
Create a CI/CD pipeline for a Xamarin app
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Familiarize yourself with the CI/CD process by building a pipeline for your own Xamarin app.
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- Set up a repository for your Xamarin app
- Create a CI/CD pipeline in your repository
- Configure the pipeline to build and test your app
- Configure the pipeline to deploy your app to a testing environment
Practice using GitHub Pull Requests
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Improve your understanding of GitHub Pull Requests by practicing using them in a real-world scenario.
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- Create a new pull request on GitHub
- Review a pull request created by someone else
- Merge a pull request
Automate builds and tests
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Strengthen your CI/CD skills by practicing how to automate builds and tests using CI/CD tools.
Browse courses on
Automated Builds
Show steps
- Set up a CI/CD pipeline for your Xamarin project.
- Configure the pipeline to automatically build your code.
- Add automated tests to your pipeline.
- Run your pipeline and verify that the builds and tests pass.
Write a blog post about your experience with CI/CD and Xamarin
Show steps
Share your knowledge and insights about CI/CD and Xamarin by writing a blog post.
Show steps
- Choose a topic to write about
- Research your topic
- Write your blog post
- Publish your blog post
Mentor junior developers or students
Show steps
Strengthen your understanding by sharing your knowledge and providing guidance to others.
Show steps
- Identify opportunities to mentor junior developers or students.
- Share your knowledge and experiences.
- Provide guidance and support.
- Reflect on your mentoring experience and identify areas for improvement.
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