Microsoft is constantly optimising our productivity. Last year they announced mobile center. It is a bundle of services to help mobile developers with CI. Microsoft has been working hard to integrate the functionalities we already used (app distribution, crash reports, analytics,…). Last week I finally switched to the new platform because now you can integrate between visual studio online and mobile center even when using custom builds.

A while ago a colleague asked me how to test a REST API when you need a token to use the API. He just wanted to verify some data and didn’t want to write any code. You’ll need to do some configuration, but once it’s setup the REST calls become painless.