App Center SDK
Important
Visual Studio App Center is scheduled for retirement on March 31, 2025. While you can continue to use Visual Studio App Center until it is fully retired, there are several recommended alternatives that you may consider migrating to.
App Center is your continuous integration, delivery and learning solution for iOS, Android, Windows, and macOS apps. Get faster release cycles, higher-quality apps, and the insights to build what users want.
Warning
Don't embed any of your API tokens into source code.
App Center Services
The App Center SDKs use a modular architecture so you can use any or all of the services below. To learn more about how each service works for your platform, check out the in-depth documentation.
App Center Analytics
App Center Analytics helps you understand user behavior and customer engagement to improve your app. The SDK automatically captures session count, device properties like model, OS version, etc. You can define your own custom events to measure things that matter to your business. All the information captured is available in the App Center portal for you to analyze the data.
App Center Crashes
App Center Crashes will automatically generate a crash log every time your app crashes. The log is first written to the device's storage and when the user starts the app again, the crash log will be sent to App Center. Collecting crashes works for both beta and live apps, i.e. those submitted to the App Store or Google Play. Crash logs contain valuable information for you to help fix the crash.
App Center Distribute
The App Center SDK will let your users install a new version of the app when you distribute it via App Center. With a new version of the app available, the SDK will present an update dialog to the users to either download or postpone the update. Once they chose to update, the SDK starts to update your application. This feature WON'T work if your app is deployed to the app store.
Get started
- App Center SDK for Android
- App Center SDK for iOS
- App Center SDK for React Native
- App Center SDK for Xamarin
- App Center SDK for Unity
- App Center SDK for UWP
- App Center SDK for WPF/WinForms
- App Center SDK for macOS
- App Center SDK for tvOS
Requirements
The tables below show the required minimum supported versions of the different App Center services.
Android
Android Studio 2.2 or later.
| Service | Android OS Version | API Level |
|---|---|---|
| Analytics | 5.0 and later | 21 and later |
| Crashes | 5.0 and later | 21 and later |
| Distribute | 5.0 and later | 21 and later |
iOS
| Service | iOS Version | Xcode |
|---|---|---|
| Analytics | 11.0 or later | 13 and later |
| Crashes | 11.0 or later | 13 and later |
| Distribute | 11.0 or later | 13 and later |
Unity
| Service | Unity version | iOS Version | Android Version | UWP Windows Version |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Analytics | 2018.1 or later | 9.0 or later | 5.0 / API Level 21 or later | 10.0.16299 or later |
| Crashes | 2018.1 or later | 9.0 or later | 5.0 / API Level 21 or later | not available |
| Distribute | 2018.1 or later | 9.0 or later | 5.0 / API Level 21 or later | not available |
Windows UWP
| Service | Windows Version | Visual Studio |
|---|---|---|
| Analytics | Windows 10 version 1703 or higher | Visual Studio 2019 or later |
| Crashes | Windows 10 version 1703 or higher | Visual Studio 2019 or later |
| Distribute | not available | not available |
WPF and WinForms
| Service | .NET Framework | .NET Core | Windows Version | Visual Studio |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Analytics | 4.6.2 or later | 3.1 or later | Windows 10 version 1703 or higher | Visual Studio 2019 or later |
| Crashes | 4.6.2 or later | 3.1 or later | Windows 10 version 1703 or higher | Visual Studio 2019 or later |
| Distribute | not available | not available | not available | not available |
.NET Core is supported only when the WPF/WinForms application runs on Windows.
React Native
| Service | RN version | iOS Version | Android Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Analytics | 0.34 or later | 9.0 or later & Cocoapods | 5.0 / API Level 21 or later |
| Crashes | 0.34 or later | 9.0 or later & Cocoapods | 5.0 / API Level 21 or later |
| Distribute | 0.34 or later | 9.0 or later & Cocoapods | 5.0 / API Level 21 or later |
macOS
| Service | macOS Version | Xcode |
|---|---|---|
| Analytics | 10.13 or later | 13 or later |
| Crashes | 10.13 or later | 13 or later |
tvOS
| Service | tvOS Version | Xcode |
|---|---|---|
| Analytics | 11.0 or later | 13 and later |
| Crashes | 11.0 or later | 13 and later |
Source Code and Release Notes
The App Center SDKs are open-source and available publicly on GitHub: