Step 1: Create a GitHub Account

If you already have a GitHub account, you can jump directly to Step 2 below. Otherwise, please follow these steps to create your account:

1. Browse to github.com/join

2. Enter in your username, e-mail address, and a password

3. Chose "Unlimited public repositories for free." This is sufficient for this exercise, and you can easily upgrade to a paid account later.

4. Choose any additional options, or simply click "skip this step"

5. Confirm your e-mail address by clicking the "Verify email address" link in the e-mail you received to the address used in step 2 above. (note, if you skip this step, you won't be able to continue with the tutorial).

Congrats! You're now ready to move on to Step 2: Forking the repo

Step 2: Forking the "MobileAzureDevDays" repo

1. Navigate to github.com/jCho23/MobileAzureDevDays

2. Click the "Fork" icon in the top right corner. You'll be brought to a subsequent screen showing that the repo is being forked, and then you'll ultimately arrive at your own forked copy of the repo that you'll use for the remainder of this exercise.

Step 3: Grab your "Sentiment Analysis" API Key

1. Please go to: gist.github.com/jCho23

2. After you have copied the Sentiment Analysis API Key, please insert the key after:

const string _sentimentAPIKey

Step 4: Create an App in Visual Studio App Center

1. In the top right corner of Visual Studio App Center, click the "Add new" button, and select "Add new app"

2. Enter MobileAzureDevDays [Android] in the name field

3. For this exercise, choose Android for the OS, and Xamarin for the Platform.

4. Click "Add new app" in the bottom right corner

Once created, App Center will automatically navigate you to your newly created app

Step 5: Set up a Build

1. Click on the "Build" service from the left hand menu

Here, you will connect App Center to your GitHub repository that you created at the beginning of this exercise

2. Select "Github"

3. Search for "MobileAzureDevDays"

4. Click on the "MobileAzureDevDays" repo in the search results

App Center will now perform it's magic, and connect up to your repo. Once this is done, we can set up our build.

5. Click on the "Master" branch

6. Click "Configure build"

7. Configure your app as show in the image below

8. Click "Save & Build"

Visual Studio App Center will now go ahead and build your app, and create a signed APK file. Go ahead, grab a cup of coffee, this will only take a minute!

Congratulations!

You've not built your first app using Visual Studio App Center. For more information on how to ship 5-start apps with Visual Studio App Center, please visit docs.microsoft.com/en-us/appcenter. There you can find information on the Crash, Test, and Analytics capabilities of Visual Studio App Center, as well as how to integrate into additional services like Application Insights, or Visual Studio Team Services.