Status badges are a common thing in public project descriptions. Here is how you get a badge of your pipeline in Azure Devops. — Status badges are used frequently in readme files of public projects. They indicate the code coverage, used technologies, or the result of the latest build action. Azure Devops provides status badges for your pipelines that can be included into other files. Here is how you do it.

I’ll explain how to use the Replace Tokens extension for Azure DevOps to dynamically change config variables in your app during a pipeline run. — Some applications require different configurations for a test stage and a production stage for example. When using Azure DevOps, we can dynamically change configuration variables in a build pipeline using the Replace Tokens extension. I’ll show you how to set it up and the needed configuration steps.

Instead of creating a pipeline with the editor of Azure DevOps, you can create a pipeline from an existing YAML file. Here is how you do it! — Let’s say, you want to use the build pipeline from another project. You’ll either need to recreate the pipeline with the editor (😪) or create a pipeline from your existing YAML file (🤗). 🔔 Your YAML file must be checked into version control! Go to Pipelines and click on New…

Use this pipeline as a template to build store-ready app bundles, ipa files, and msix packages. — Earlier this year, I published a build pipeline for Azure DevOps to build Flutter apps for Android and iOS. Now, the template was updated to also support Windows as a target platform. Here is the full YAML file (pay attention to the comments!): For more details on how to…

Working with pull requests is a common pattern for teams in the software development area. Here is how to enforce the workflow in Azure DevOps. — The most common workflow in software projects is the pull request workflow. First, a developer develops new functionality or bug fixes on a separate branch. When the work is done, a pull request is created to integrate the changes into another branch (usually the main or master branch, but it…

A ready-to-use and working build pipeline for Azure DevOps to build Flutter apps for iOS, Android, and Windows. — Here is a working pipeline for Azure DevOps to build Flutter apps with the most recent SDK version for iOS, Android, and Windows alongside an integration and configuration guide. It will produce an Android App bundle…