From the course: Visual Studio App Center for Developers

What you should know - Visual Studio Tutorial

From the course: Visual Studio App Center for Developers

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What you should know

- [Instructor] Let's talk about what you need to know before starting this course. You need to understand how to use Git style repositories and GitHub. The basics of Xamarin, native iOS and Android development and React Native development. How to work in a terminal window, how to go into an Apple Developer account and set up provisioning profiles, sign iOS apps and Android apps. There are a couple of hardware requirements we're going to need. First and foremost, this class is done on a Mac. It is possible to use a Windows machine for this, but some of the work we're doing with iOS in an Xcode cannot be done on a Windows machine, so while it may be possible to go through parts of the course on a Windows machine, all of it will not be possible. You'll also need a physical device to deploy your builds on too. For this, we used an iPhone. On your Mac, you need to have several pieces of software already installed. You'll need several development environments, starting with Xcode, note package manager, Android Studio with the SDKs and the emulators, Visual Studio for Mac, Visual Studio Code, iTunes, and finally Sourcetree. After installing these, I found it's a good idea to start them all up and make sure they're all initialized and working correctly. There is an authentication bug with Sourcetree 3.7 for Mac. If you are using Sourcetree for this course on a Mac, ensure you are using an earlier version. Finally, you'll need to install and initialize the React Native Command Line Interface. There are a couple of accounts that you're going to need as well. You're going to need a GitHub account, an Azure account, an Apple Developer account, and a Firebase account.

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