Iteration Plan for September 2019

[nilofer]

September 2019 Plan

Android developers and Dark Mode lovers rejoice! We spent last month finishing out our feature set for Android App Bundle support with Xamarin.Android build support and automatic store distribution after a build. Dark Mode is officially in preview to shield your eyes from the bright, white light while perfecting your apps. It was also a great month for those of you with WPF and WinForms apps with added support for Diagnostics and Analytics.

We’re continuing work on some of the features we started last month including bringing your own identity management provider to Auth, support for self-hosted GitLab instances, and in-app updates through public distribution groups. We’ll also be tackling support for building apps with Xamarin.iOS app extensions. Your testers can look forward to a beautiful, updated experience when interacting with the app releases distributed to them. We’re looking to ease moving apps in bulk from HockeyApp to App Center as well as enabling some app management pieces directly in App Center. Lastly, we’re exploring new features such as a free tier in Data and Compute Backend-as-a-Service.

Auth

• Support bringing your own identity management provider (Firebase Authentication and Auth0) with App Center Auth [Bring your own identity management provider with App Center Auth #637]
• Enable developers to connect their Active Azure Directory to Auth [Enable developers to connect their Active Azure Directory to Auth #994]

Build

• Support for building Swift/Obj-C and React Native iOS apps with Xcode 11 beta 6
• Support for building Swift/Obj-C and React Native iOS apps with Xcode 11 beta 7
• Support for building Swift/Obj-C and React Native iOS apps with Xcode 11 GM
• Support for building Swift/Obj-C and React Native iOS apps with Xcode 11 GM 2
• Support for building Swift/Obj-C and React Native iOS apps with Xcode 11 GA
• Support for building Swift/Obj-C and React Native iOS apps with Xcode 11.1 GM
• Support for building Xamarin apps with Mono version: 6.4.0.198, Xamarin.iOS: 13.2.0.42, Xamarin.Android: 10.0.0.43, Xamarin.Mac: 6.2.0.42 [Add support for Android 10 & iOS 13 #1096 ]
• Support for Xamarin.iOS App Extensions [[Feature] Xamarin.iOS extension signing #30]
• Self-Hosted GitLab Support [GitLab.com as a source code service #37]

Data

• Data Metrics Explorer [Data Metrics Explorer  #660]
• Investigatory work on Free Tier for App Center Data [ Investigatory work on Free Tier for App Center Data #799]
• Data Explorer [ Investigatory work on Data Explorer #800]

Diagnostics

• API to upload custom crashes [[Feature] Add REST API function for uploading custom crashes #31]
• Support macOS & iOS extensions [Add diagnostics (crashes) support for iOS extensions #687]
• Crashes and errors support for UWP apps [Ability to add comments to UWP crashes like on iOS #752, UWP: support handled exceptions #150, Support Crash Metadata for UWP apps #403]
• User ID support for WPF, WinForms, and UWP apps

Distribution

• Support Sparkle feeds for macOS/Windows in-app updates [Support Sparkle feeds for macOS/Windows in-app updates #202]
• In-app update through public distribution groups [In-app update through public distribution groups requires log-in #182]
• Updated testere experience [get a QR (or link) to a specific build/release #986, Link to Release on install.appcenter.ms #140, install.appcenter.ms sorts iOS and Android releases differently  #369, The install web page doesn't display properly on Safari #176]
• New CodePush SDK [CodePush servers slow and unstable #814]

SDK

• Support Carthage in the App Center Apple SDKs [Support Carthage in the App Center Apple SDKs #977]
• Add diagnostics (crashes) support for iOS extensions [Add diagnostics (crashes) support for iOS extensions #687]

HockeyApp

• Switch the owner management of organizations from HockeyApp to App Center
• Allow to move multiple apps simultaneously via API

General

• Research for compute backend-as-a-service from App Center [Research for compute backend-as-a-service from App Center #993]

Test

• Add iOS 13 devices to the device selection [Xamarin.UITest support fo iOS 13 and Xcode 11 #1129]

[sgreifeneder]

As mentioned by @patniko in #792, please consider #30 to be part of the September iteration plan!

[Zee-day]

Can you please bring issue #32 into this iteration?

[nilofer]

Working on it this month @sgreifeneder. Which unfortunately limits our capacity to work on #32 @Zee-day. Definitely still on our radar.

[fabiendem]

Hey, it looks like "In-app update through public distribution groups [#182]" was in the August roadmap but couldn't get completed. #792

It's not part of the September roadmap at the moment.
Could you just clarify what to expect from such items not completed yet and dropped from the future roadmaps?

Thanks!

[nilofer]

Hey @fabiendem, the issue has been pulled into this month's iteration plan. We haven't finished finalizing this yet.

[masatoru]

What does it mean that the task of your own identity management provider is complete? When can I use this feature?

[patniko]

@masatoru Firebase Authentication, Auth0 and AAD support are on their way!

[beeradmoore]

@nrajpurkar , Xcode 11 went GM seed (and then GM seed 2) a week ago. Is it safe to presume the Xcode 11 beta 6 and Xcode 11 beta 7 tasks above are being done against Xcode 11 GM seed 2?

[nilofer]

Good catch @beeradmoore, we're actually already on GM 2. I fixed that above.

[beeradmoore]

Awesome. Thanks :)

[pkhandelwal-cdl]

I checked the GitHub issue list and couldn't find anything, is there a timetable to support building Xamarin.iOS with XCode 11?

[nilofer]

@pkhandelwal-cdl we're working on support for the latest Xamarin.iOS version at the moment and hope to ship that soon. I'll add it to our iteration plan.

[follesoe]

Awesome to see that you keep this information open on GitHub. Found the answer I was looking for (you are working on Xcode 11 GM + latest Xamarin.iOS support in the current iteration). Keep up the good work with the AppCenter platform! 👍

[maxxximme]

Hey, it looks like "In-app update through public distribution groups [#182]" was in the August roadmap but couldn't get completed. #792

It's not part of the September roadmap at the moment.
Could you just clarify what to expect from such items not completed yet and dropped from the future roadmaps?

Thanks!

Critically waiting on that basic functionality to actually work

[pkhandelwal-cdl]

Looks like support for building Xamarin.iOS for XCode 11 is now live! Thank you AppCenter team for the quick turnaround!!

[lamathe]

@nrajpurkar Do you have an ETA for the issue under Diagnostics > API to upload custom crashes ?

[winnie]

Hi @lamathe - we should have the endpoint available in the next few weeks!

[DrBeak1]

I don't see an October plan -- are these still being posted regularly @nrajpurkar ?

[nilofer]

@DrBeak1 yep, October plan is over at #1114

[DrBeak1]

Thanks @nrajpurkar! I was looking here and didn't see it.

[mertnesvat]

Is there any update regarding #615 it's closed but no idea how to fix, checked many issues and asked to customer support but no reply, does any body have an idea?