USE DEVOPS TO AUTOMATE YOUR WORKFLOWS

Using GitHub Actions with iOS and Android Xamarin apps

Get started by creating Automated Builds on each Push or Merge Request

The First Prototype
Level Up Coding
Published in
3 min readJan 13, 2020

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DevOps are a must-have in every Software Architect’s belt, and GitHub’s Actions for CI/CD is just another step to make DevOps accessible for everyone. Ever since I got a chance to see the immense impact that CI/CD can have on efficiency of mobile teams, I knew it is a no-brainer for every team project!

Introduction

This document will teach you the easiest use of GitHub Actions: Running a GitHub Action to perform a sanity test on your apps— make sure the iOS & Android apps build on each commit or merge request, ensuring that there is no bug introduced in that commit which breaks the build.

Merge Request with a missing semicolon in MainActivity fails Android Check

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What You Need

You need any Xamarin solution in a repository on Github. Yes, it can be Xamarin.Native or Xamarin.Forms, and the repository can be public or…

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