HockeyApp Joins Microsoft

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Post by davidbarker » Thu, Dec 11, 2014, 2:09 PM UTC

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Post by kolencherry » Thu, Dec 11, 2014, 2:28 PM UTC

This is really interesting. Microsoft has HockeyApp and Apple has TestFlight. I wonder if this is a push on their part to enhance the testing tooling available for Windows Phone.

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Post by bugsense » Thu, Dec 11, 2014, 2:34 PM UTC

Wow, this was unexpected, congrats to HockeyApp team! What they have built is impressive. No VC funding, no bs, just awesome work and great community.

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Post by binarymax » Thu, Dec 11, 2014, 2:37 PM UTC

kolencherry wrote: post #2

This is really interesting. Microsoft has HockeyApp and Apple has TestFlight. I wonder if this is a push on their part to enhance the testing tooling available for Windows Phone.

Microsoft's strategy is shifting away from Windows Phone only, and is working hard on getting their non-windows software stack on all devices. While it will probably help windows phone tooling, Microsoft is painfully aware of the small market share WP has compared to iOS and Android.

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Post by andyjohnson0 » Thu, Dec 11, 2014, 2:56 PM UTC

I just signed-up with HockeyApp this morning and have been very impressed with the experience. Congratulations to the team!

Previously we'd been using TestFlight for iOS and the PLsy Store's built-in beta-test functionality for Android, but it is convenient to have one service that supports a range of mobile OSs and a lower-friction deployment process.

When TestFlight was bought by Apple, they fairly quickly abandoned support for non-iOS pltforms. I'm confident that Microsoft isn't short-sighted enough to do something similar.

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Post by wclax04 » Thu, Dec 11, 2014, 2:59 PM UTC

Congrats guys. We use HockeyApp and love it!

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Dec 11, 2014, 3:00 PM UTC

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Post by woogle » Thu, Dec 11, 2014, 3:03 PM UTC

I'm not sure it is a good news.

In one hand it's great to hear that Analytics will be added and cross support is still important.

But in the other hand, it puts developers in inconfortable position. Should we still use HockeyApp for our iOS apps? Depend on a tool owned by a concurrent of your target platform is not so safe on a long term sight..

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Post by untog » Thu, Dec 11, 2014, 3:06 PM UTC

woogle wrote: post #8

I'm not sure it is a good news. In one hand it's great to hear that Analytics will be added and cross support is still important. But in the other hand, it puts developers in inconfortable position. Should we still use HockeyApp for our iOS apps? Depend on a tool owned by a concurrent of your target platform is not so safe on a long term sight..

I'm not too worried about it. After all, MS has released Office on iOS, and partnered with Xamarin for iOS development. They'd be insane to buy HockeyApp then kill everything it has and replace it with a Windows Phone only solution.

It's weird, but MS is almost one of the best large companies to do cross-platform dev with these days.

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Post by giulianob » Thu, Dec 11, 2014, 3:07 PM UTC

woogle wrote: post #8

I'm not sure it is a good news. In one hand it's great to hear that Analytics will be added and cross support is still important. But in the other hand, it puts developers in inconfortable position. Should we still use HockeyApp for our iOS apps? Depend on a tool owned by a concurrent of your target platform is not so safe on a long term sight..

Considering Microsoft's strategy lately has been to provide cross platform support, I wouldn't assume that iOS is out of the picture unless there is an announcement. Look at Microsoft Band for example, it supports iOS, Android, and Windows Phone. Also the biggest news lately was .NET going cross platform and will run on OSX and Linux.