To get the most out of this book

This book assumes a medium-level knowledge of the Windows operating system and basic knowledge of cloud computing and the application development life cycle, and also beginner-level knowledge of object-oriented programming languages such as Java or C#. The book will go through various phases of the mobile DevOps life cycle, which requires a basic understanding of application development fundamentals and application delivery. If you have experience with Visual Studio and with programming with C#, this is a big plus.

The minimum requirements to install Visual Studio and Xamarin are as follows:

• Windows requirements: Windows 7
• Android 6.0/API level 23

The following are the hardware requirements for Android Emulator:

• Hyper-V support
• 4 GB or more RAM
• 64-bit version of Windows OS

Note that since the Android SDK Emulator is prohibitively slow without hardware acceleration, Intel's Hardware Accelerated Execution Manager (HAXM) is the recommended way to drastically improve the performance of the Android Emulator.

Internet connectivity is required to install the necessary Visual Studio and Xamarin.Android packages and Git, and to connect with Xamarin Test Cloud.

Download the example code files

You can download the example code files for this book from your account at www.packtpub.com. If you purchased this book elsewhere, you can visit www.packtpub.com/support and register to have the files emailed directly to you.

You can download the code files by following these steps:

1. Log in or register at www.packtpub.com.
2. Select the SUPPORT tab.
3. Click on Code Downloads & Errata.
4. Enter the name of the book in the Search box and follow the onscreen instructions.

Once the file is downloaded, please make sure that you unzip or extract the folder using the latest version of:

• WinRAR/7-Zip for Windows
• Zipeg/iZip/UnRarX for Mac
• 7-Zip/PeaZip for Linux

The code bundle for the book is also hosted on GitHub at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Mobile-DevOps. In case there's an update to the code, it will be updated on the existing GitHub repository.

We also have other code bundles from our rich catalog of books and videos available at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/. Check them out!

Download the color images

We also provide a PDF file that has color images of the screenshots/diagrams used in this book. You can download it here: https://www.packtpub.com/sites/default/files/downloads/MobileDevOps_ColorImages.pdf.

Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

CodeInText: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "The MainActivity.cs file has our C# code for handling events and other things in our main screen."

A block of code is set as follows:

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Action": "ec2:*",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Resource": "*"
    },

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

$ mkdir terraform
$ cd terraform
$ terraform workspace new MyTestMachine

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see onscreen. For example, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in the text like this. Here is an example: "Click on Free download provided under Visual Studio Community 2017. "

Warnings or important notes appear like this.

Tips and tricks appear like this.