What is alternative of App center as it is going to deprecate by March 31, 2025?

Question

1. I am using App Center Analytics, App Center Crashlytics, and App Center Distribution for my .NET MAUI application. Are there any alternative options available for all three of these services? If so, which ones are considered good alternatives?
2. App Center also allows exporting Analytics events to Azure Storage. We have integrated Power BI reporting based on these events generated from Analytics. Are there other solutions that provide event data export, enabling us to generate Power BI reports from that exported event data?

Answer 1

The announcement from Microsoft shares some recommended replacements for each App Center capability: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/appcenter/retirement

For building they recommend Azure Pipelines, although I'd personally recommend GitHub Actions paired with Fastlane as a good pipeline for automating signing, and deployment to App Store / TestFlight / Google Play.

For replacing App Center's beta distribution capabilities, if you don't want to rely on platform specific options like deploying to TestFlight or Google Play Console directly, there are tools like Buildstash which integrate with Azure DevOps Pipelines or GitHub Actions for distribution.

Answer 2

see announcement:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/appcenter/retirement

you can look at GitHub actions for deployment.