$PLISTBUDDY $INFO -c 'set :CFBundleVersion 1.0.$BUILD_BUILDID'īy running this as part of our build before the Xamarin.iOS build step we are ensured to get a unique build number. $PLISTBUDDY $INFO -c 'set :CFBundleShortVersionString 1.0.$BUILD_BUILDID' I consulted some Microsoft-provided documentation and came up with this fairly simple script: #!/bin/bashĮcho 'setting versions to 1.0.$BUILD_BUILDID'Įxport PLISTBUDDY='/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy'Įxport INFO=$BUILD_SOURCESDIRECTORY'/AppName.Mobile/AppName.Mobile//ist' So I decided to grab the Shell Script task and see what it would allow me to do.Īs you can see, options for setup on a shell scripts aren’t too plentiful: I knew that a PowerShell script wouldn’t do what I needed because I was running this with a local agent on a Mac, and Mac’s don’t do PowerShell.

So I just dove right in to see what kind of task I could come up with.

I knew that I could add another step to our build in VSTS but I wasn’t sure exactly how. I had no idea what that was or how to integrate that with my process because everyone was talking about it in reference to automating Xcode builds with TeamCity or Jenkins. Of course none of the articles like this one described anything about updating version info as part of the CI process.Īfter doing a bit of research, I found a lot of people talking about a utility call Plistbuddy. The app uploaded just fine but when we went in to manage it, we noticed that the version was exactly the same as the previous one. However, problems arose when we wanted to push subsequent builds to HockeyApp. These instructions made it an easy enough of a process and we got our first build from continuous integration (CI) pushed over. The need to do that was just the first part of a bigger series of events that eventually led to subsequent builds being automatically versioned for us.Īfter the builds were completed, we needed to ship the Xamarin.iOS build off to HockeyApp for distribution. In last week’s blog post Andrew showed us how to trigger a build from another build.

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