
<h2>Microsoft Mobile Center</h2>
<p>
  Mobile Center bring multiple service into single web based platform for
  developer, marketing person, manager. You can build, test, distribute and
  monitor app's analytics and crash report data, so far it's support Native
  Android, Native iOS, React Native and Xamarin SDK.
</p>
<p>
  <img
    class="img-responsive"
    src="https://d1p0mp3f1fx0hz.cloudfront.net/_w3xroryfu.png"
    alt="Mobile Center - Microsoft"
  />
</p>
<h3>How to use Mobile Center with Xamarin.Form</h3>
<h4>Register via https://mobile.azure.com</h4>
<p>
  Create your account and once login create apps for Android or iOS, at this
  point (4/15/2017) they don't have support for window yet, but based on their
  product Roadmap will do in the future. When create apps you will get app
  secret, add to your <code>app's OnStart() method</code>, app class should be
  inherit from <code>Xamarin.Forms.Application</code>. So following are the code
  you need to add.
</p>
<h6>Add nuget to Xamarin.Form project</h6>
<pre class="language-xml">
  &lt;package id="Microsoft.Azure.Mobile" version="0.7.0" targetFramework="portable45-net45+win8+wpa81" /&gt;
  &lt;package id="Microsoft.Azure.Mobile.Analytics" version="0.7.0" targetFramework="portable45-net45+win8+wpa81" /&gt;
  &lt;package id="Microsoft.Azure.Mobile.Crashes" version="0.7.0" targetFramework="portable45-net45+win8+wpa81" /&gt;
</pre>
<h6>Add code to Xamarin.Form app's onStart method</h6>
<pre class="language-csharp">
      MobileCenter.Start("ios={Your iOS app secret created at mobile center portal.};" +
                   "android={Your android app secret created at mobile center portal.};",
                   typeof(Analytics), typeof(Crashes));
</pre>
<p>
  Just adding nuget to Xamarin.Form porject and code, you might see following
  error on debug window. So you'll have to add nuget to Xamarin.Form's Android
  and iOS projects too.
</p>
<p>
  <strong>
    [0:] [MobileCenter] ASSERT: Cannot use Mobile Center on this target. If you
    are on Android or iOS, you must add the NuGet packages in the Android and
    iOS projects as well. Other targets such as Universal Windows Applications
    are not yet supported.
  </strong>
</p>
<p><strong>In Summary, to use Mobile Center at Xamarin.Form</strong></p>
<ol>
  <li><strong>Create account at https://mobile.azure.com</strong></li>
  <li><strong>Create an App for Android and an App for iOS</strong></li>
  <li>
    <strong
      >Add Nuget Package, Microsoft.Azure.Mobile,
      Microsoft.Azure.Mobile.Analytics,</strong
    ><strong
      >, Microsoft.Azure.Mobile.Crashes to Xamarin.Form, Android and iOS
      projects.<br
    /></strong>
  </li>
  <li><strong>Add Mobile Center start code at App.xaml.cs</strong></li>
  <li>
    <strong
      >Should see analytic data by run app on either emulator or actual
      device.</strong
    >
  </li>
</ol>
<h4>Reference</h4>
<ul>
  <li>
    <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/mobile-center/" target="_blank"
      >About Mobile Center</a
    >
  </li>
  <li>
    <a
      href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/mobile-center/general/roadmap"
      target="_blank"
      >Mobile Center Product Roadmap</a
    >
  </li>
  <li>
    <a
      href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/mobile-center/general/pricing"
      target="_blank"
      >Mobile Center Pricing</a
    >
  </li>
</ul>
<p>&nbsp;</p>


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