Microsoft and Perfecto Mobile announced new features for mobile app testing in Visual Studio and Microsoft Azure.

Learn how Mobile Center helps you easily develop, build, test, distribute, and monitor your mobile apps.

Developers using Microsoft's Visual Studio Mobile Center back-end service hub can now directly update JavaScript-based apps via the CodePush service.

The Visual Studio Mobile Center preview also gets an update, with support for mobile apps built with the React Native and Xamarin programming languages.

Visual Studio Mobile Center The third new product debuted in the Visual Studio family at Connect (); is Visual Studio Mobile Center, a DevOps tool that draws together build, test, distribution and ...

Other new features promise make it easier for Visual Studio developers to connect apps to cloud services including Azure Mobile Apps data storage and authentication.

Microsoft also launched Visual Studio Mobile Center, a portal for developers to access a suite of services all aimed at making it easier to create mobile apps.

Xamarin is furthering its mission to make C# the mobile-development language of choice by allowing iOS coders to use Microsoft's Visual Studio.

Friedman is also the former CEO of Xamarin, on which Visual Studio for Mac is largely based. Microsoft acquired the mobile app development toolmaker early this year for an undisclosed amount.

Telerik has developed a service called Icenium to automate the otherwise tedious task of using traditional integrated development environments (IDE) for mobile app development.