[hackcrafter]

Very cool that their "Mobile Center" SDK has React Native support. [0]

This looks very feature competitive with the "AWS Mobile Hub", even going beyond it with its CI app build integration with GitHub and device simulators!

Also, although they announced Amazon Pinpoint in December, there is still no support for it in their "beta" React Native Mobile SDK [0] (Which has had no commits in 5 months)

[0] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/mobile-center/sdk/getting-s...

[1] https://github.com/awslabs/aws-sdk-react-native

[LyalinDotCom]

We also have a new video on Mobile Center if you're interested, we just released it as part of launch event:

https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Visual-Studio/Visual-Studio...

(its by the product team)

[hackcrafter]

I'm curious if CodePush[0] can be used along side (or integrated into) Mobile Center.

That seems like a no-brainer if you are supporting React Native based apps.

Also, I didn't see any support for platform native Notification APIs for React Native. The current notification service is for pure-JS / Cordova[1]

[0] https://microsoft.github.io/code-push/

[1] https://azure.github.io/azure-mobile-apps-js-client/

[axemclion]

Yes, CodePush can be used with Mobile Center - here is a demo video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfqZ8Uy2p3U)

CodePush will also be integrated into Mobile Center, so that you can also making CodePush a part of your CI process. We are also working on adding support for Authentication, storage, testing and Push notifications.

[I am the PM on CodePush and React Native Mobile Center stuff]

[hackcrafter]

Awesome to hear!

Do you have a general timeframe?

I'm going to be deciding between Azure Mobile Center and AWS Mobile Hub in the next couple months for a personal project.

[axemclion]

You should be able to use Mobile Center and CodePush separately today. We are planning to incrementally roll out a backward compatible solution over the next 2 months.