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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.

Learn more about support timelines and alternatives.

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.

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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.

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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: