Microsoft
announced plans to shut down HockeyApp and replace it with Visual Studio App
Center. The company acquired the startup behind HockeyApp back in 2014. And if
you’re still using HockeyApp, the service will officially shut down on November
16, 2019.
HockeyApp
was a service that let you distribute beta versions of your app, get crash
reports and analytics. There are other similar SDKs, such as Google’s
Crashlytics, TestFairy, Appaloosa, DeployGate and native beta distribution
channels (Apple’s TestFlight and Google Play Store’s beta feature).
Microsoft
hasn’t really been hiding its plans to shut down the service. Last year, the
company called App Center “the future of HockeyApp”. The company has also been
cloning your HockeyApp projects into App Center for a while.
It doesn’t
mean that you’ll find the same features in App Center just yet. The company has
put up a page with a feature roadmap. Let’s hope that Microsoft has enough time
to release everything before HockeyApp shuts down.
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