Custom OS

[sdermanffs]

Describe the solution you'd like
The ability to support apps that don't fit into the supported OSes (iOS, Android, Windows, macOS). Please add Custom similar to how HockeyApp supports Custom. For example, Hololens.

Additional context
We have a number of apps migrated from HockeyApp. Many of these are not one of iOS, Android, Windows, macOS apps and therefore we use the "Custom" OS setting.

[lacostej]

We will need this as well.

[dipree]

Thanks for bringing it up, we have it tracked on our roadmap

Custom apps platform support

[lbrownell-gpsw]

One of our "apps" is a plugin (for Mac and Win), that is installed via a .pkg on Mac and .exe on Win. It is not an app -- it is a single file of a specific odd type required by the app for which it is a plugin. Right now, I can't upload it to App Center.

Thanks.

[dipree]

@lbrownell-gpsw on HockeyApp, does it currently reside as a custom app?

[lbrownell-gpsw]

@derpixeldan Not yet.

This is new, thought I'd try creating our first native App Center app, epic fail!

We do have some custom apps in HockeyApp -- for example, Windows apps that install via an .exe, not an .msi, and some mobile SDKs that are in a .zip file, containing frameworks, documentation and sample apps. We also used to package up build artifacts/logs and save them as custom "apps" as well, but we push all that to Artifactory now.

[Bart-Verdonck]

Can we expect this feature to be present once HockeyApp is no longer available. (16 November?)
Otherwise we'd have to look for a temporary solution as we also use HockeyApp to host standalone-installers (*.deb, *.dmg and *.msi; each packaged in a *.zip)

[dipree]

Yes, everything on the roadmap will be available before the shutdown.

[martinarvaiaccedo]

Hi! Any update on this? Besides Android, we work with Samsung Tizen and LG WebOS applications. It would be good to either support these or simply support the "Custom Platform". Both Smart TV platforms are javascript applications.

Parsing the version would be fairly easy for both of the platforms. Both provide unzippable archives:

• Tizen contains a config.xml with the version in it
• WebOS contains an appinfo.json with the version.

Thank you in advance!

[gautamkrishnar]

For more info

• Tizen: https://developer.tizen.org/development/tizen-studio/web-tools/configuring-your-app/configuration-editor
• LG: http://webostv.developer.lge.com/sdk/tools/ide/setting-project/

It's better if you can implement signing of lg and tizen applications in appcenter.

[lbrownell-gpsw]

Re: my comment above, we have rid ourselves of all our custom apps except the plugins I described above. They are currently in HockeyApp as custom apps.

When I look at them in App Center, it asks me to classify them as one of the supported types.

So, obviously not there, and it's a bit scary that in the October Iteration, "Custom apps platform support" is an unchecked box without an issue number (which is, apparently, this one).

November will be a short iteration...unless the demise of HockeyApp is put off for this (and the other remaining features).

So...how's it going?

[gautamkrishnar]

I think you guys should add a CI like platform that uses containers to execute jobs so that anyone can add their own custom tools via cli to build the projects. For example: if i need to use gcc i can install it from apt repository and do whatever operations i need on my app, i just need to specify the tasks and installation of dependencies via commands. This is the only way to support the infinite number of custom OSes.