Complete CI/CD tutorial for Xamarin Android with Google Play publish in Azure DevOps | Part 1.
This content has 4 years. Some of the information in this post may be out of date or no longer work. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.This tutorial will drive you through setting up a great CI/CD pipeline for Xamarin Android in a fully hosted Azure DevOps enviroment. Part 1 contains: Creating an empty Xamarin.Android build pipeline Uploading keystore file to secure files Start with some code I have added some basic code to my demo repository. It is a boilerplate Xamarin Application, with no additional customized code. If you have code in your repo, make sure it builds successfully. Create your first pipeline On the left side menu, go to Pipelines/Pipelines. This menu will show up a welcome page, to create new pipeline. Click on ‘Create Pipeline’ button, or if you have already created your first pipeline, find a button to add a new one. On the next page, a wizard will guide you through the basic setup. If you have your code in Azure Repos, click the button for that. Select your repository where your Xamarin Android code lives. On the next page, you can select a template to create your pipeline yml. Let’s choose Xamarin.Android. If you want, you can rename your yml file. Pipeline files will be placed in your repository root by default. YML file extension stands for YAML files. Review your newly created file, how it looks like. Luckily, you do not have to write yaml too much, but good…
Hi, I am András,
I am a seasoned software engineer from Budapest, Hungary with a strong focus on mobile app development using .NET MAUI and Xamarin.Forms. My expertise also extends to website building for my happy customers and other complex system designing. I am passionate about developing well-organized, maintainable software solutions.