Continuous Integration with Xamarin Apps

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Presents a concrete continuous-integration pipeline for Xamarin apps: keep 60–90% shared code, run NUnit unit tests locally and in CI, and run Xamarin.UITest in Test Cloud for UI tests (demo ran on 69 devices with 2 failures). Builds iOS on a Mac and automates the workflow with TeamCity plus FAKE scripts to restore NuGet, compile, run tests and publish XML results, then upload signed packages to Test Cloud and HockeyApp/TestFlight for distribution and feedback.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 7:30What is Xamarin
3. 13:12Unit testing in Xamarin
4. 18:18UI testing with BITS
5. 25:02Xamarin Test Cloud
6. 29:27Continuous integration
7. 34:03TeamCity setup
8. 37:32Script automation
9. 41:03Continuous delivery

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