# microsoft/appcenter

Central repository for App Center open source resources and planning.

Repository: https://github.com/microsoft/appcenter
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/appcenter
Homepage: https://appcenter.ms
Language: Shell
License: CC-BY-4.0
License Family: other
Last push: 2024-04-24T16:02:14+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2910, "days_push": 861, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1014, forks 219 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:13.944636+00:00)

## What it is
Microsoft's Visual Studio App Center, a cloud service for mobile and desktop app build, test, deploy, crash reporting, and analytics. This repository is the central hub for its open-source resources, planning, and roadmap, and the service was retired on March 31, 2025 (Analytics/Diagnostics until March 2027).

## Use cases
- monitor crashes in ios and android apps
- build and distribute mobile app releases
- collect app usage analytics
- automate mobile app testing on real devices
- migrate off app center to an alternative

## When to choose
- you maintain a legacy app already integrated with App Center SDKs
- you need crash reporting or analytics until the 2027 sunset date

## When to avoid
- you are starting a new project needing mobile CI/CD or crash reporting
- you need long-term supported build and distribution services

## Facets
- artifact type: service
- maturity: maintenance
- function: monitoring, analytics, ci-cd, deployment, testing
- domain: mobile-development, analytics
- platform: cross-platform, cloud
- tags: crash-reporting, app-center, microsoft, retired, mobile-devops, hockeyapp-successor, devops, ios, android

## Member repositories
- microsoft/appcenter (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:13.944636+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T07:11:34.239726+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/microsoft/appcenter (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:13.944636+00:00, sha 342d036b9714)
  - homepage: https://appcenter.ms (fetched 2026-08-29T13:10:53.077780+00:00, sha c383e14628e9)
  - site_page: https://appcenter.ms/create-account (fetched 2026-08-29T13:10:53.087377+00:00, sha 6fd5e82f0793)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.