App Center Command Line Interface (CLI)

Visual Studio App Center command line interface (CLI) is a unified tool for running App Center services from the command line. Our aim is to offer a concise and powerful tool for our developers to use App Center services and easily script a sequence of commands that they'd like to execute. You can currently login and view/configure all the apps that you have access to in App Center.

Prerequisites

The required Node.js version is 18 or higher, Mono and the Android-SDK are required to run the UI test for Android and iOS.

Installation

npm install --location=global appcenter-cli

Once installed, use the appcenter command. See below for the available commands.

Getting Help

To get a top level list of the available commands, run appcenter help.

To get help on a specific command or category, run appcenter help command or pass the -h flag to any command or category name.

App Center provides SDK support directly within the App Center portal. Any time you need help, just sign in to App Center, then choose 'Contact support' inside the help menu on the upper right of the App Center portal and our dedicated support team will respond to your questions and feedback.

Commands

Below is the list of commands currently supported by Visual Studio App Center CLI:

Command	Description
appcenter help	Get help using appcenter commands
appcenter login	Log in
appcenter logout	Log out
appcenter setup-autocomplete	Setup tab completion for your shell
appcenter analytics app-versions	Shows versions of the application
appcenter analytics audience	Show audience statistics
appcenter analytics log-flow	Command to see the incoming logs in real time
appcenter analytics sessions	Show statistics for sessions
appcenter analytics events delete	Delete event
appcenter analytics events show	Show statistics for events
appcenter apps create	Create a new app
appcenter apps delete	Delete an app
appcenter apps get-current	Get the application that's set as default for all CLI commands
appcenter apps list	Get list of configured applications
appcenter apps set-current	Set default application for all CLI commands. Not compatible when authenticating with '--token' or an environment variable. Use environment variable 'MOBILE_CENTER_CURRENT_APP' to set the default app instead
appcenter apps show	Get the details of an app
appcenter apps update	Update an app
appcenter build download	Download the binary, logs or symbols for a completed build
appcenter build logs	Displays log for build
appcenter build queue	Queue a new build
appcenter build branches list	Show list of branches
appcenter build branches show	Show branch build status
appcenter codepush patch	Update the metadata for an existing CodePush release
appcenter codepush promote	Create a new release for the destination deployment, which includes the exact code and metadata from the latest release of the source deployment
appcenter codepush release-cordova	Release a Cordova update to an app deployment
appcenter codepush release-electron	Release an Electron update to a deployment
appcenter codepush release-react	Release a React Native update to an app deployment
appcenter codepush release	Release an update to an app deployment
appcenter codepush rollback	Rollback a deployment to a previous release
appcenter codepush deployment add	Add a new deployment to an app
appcenter codepush deployment clear	Clear the release history associated with a deployment
appcenter codepush deployment history	Display the release history for a CodePush deployment
appcenter codepush deployment list	List the deployments associated with an app
appcenter codepush deployment remove	Remove CodePush deployment
appcenter codepush deployment rename	Rename CodePush deployment
appcenter crashes upload-mappings	Upload the Android mappings for the application
appcenter crashes upload-missing-symbols	Upload missing crash symbols for the application (only from macOS)
appcenter crashes upload-symbols	Upload the crash symbols for the application
appcenter distribute release	Upload release binary and trigger distribution, at least one of --store or --group must be specified
appcenter distribute groups create	Create new distribution group
appcenter distribute groups delete	Deletes the distribution group
appcenter distribute groups download	Download release package for the distribution group
appcenter distribute groups list	Lists all distribution groups of the app
appcenter distribute groups publish	Publish an app file to a group
appcenter distribute groups show	Shows information about the distribution group
appcenter distribute groups update	Update existing distribution group
appcenter distribute releases add-destination	Distribute an existing release to an additional destination
appcenter distribute releases delete	Deletes the release
appcenter distribute releases edit-notes	Update release notes
appcenter distribute releases edit	Toggles enabling and disabling the specified release
appcenter distribute releases list	Shows the list of all releases for the application
appcenter distribute releases show	Shows full details about release
appcenter distribute stores list	Lists all stores of the app
appcenter distribute stores publish	Publish an app file to a store
appcenter orgs create	Create a new organization
appcenter orgs list	Lists organizations in which current user is collaborator
appcenter orgs show	Show information about organization
appcenter orgs update	Update organization information
appcenter orgs apps create	Create a new app in an organization
appcenter orgs apps list	Lists applications of organization
appcenter orgs collaborators list	Lists collaborators of organization
appcenter orgs collaborators update	Update list of organization collaborators
appcenter profile list	Get information about logged in user
appcenter profile update	Update user information
appcenter telemetry off	Turn off the sending of telemetry
appcenter telemetry on	Turn on the sending of telemetry
appcenter test download	Download the report artifacts, unpack and merge them. This command is only available for UITest and Appium test runs
appcenter test status	Checks the status of the started test run
appcenter test stop	Stop the started test run
appcenter test wizard	Start a test run interactively. All the parameters will be prompted on-the-go
appcenter test generate appium	Generates an Appium project
appcenter test generate uitest	Generates a Xamarin.UITest project
appcenter test prepare appium	Creates an artifacts directory with Appium tests
appcenter test prepare calabash	Creates an artifacts directory with Calabash tests
appcenter test prepare espresso	Creates an artifacts directory with Espresso tests
appcenter test prepare uitest	Creates an artifacts directory with Xamarin UI Tests
appcenter test prepare xcuitest	Creates an artifacts directory with XCUITest tests
appcenter test run appium	Starts a test run with Appium tests
appcenter test run calabash	Starts a test run with Calabash tests
appcenter test run espresso	Starts a test run with Espresso tests
appcenter test run manifest	Starts a test run with previously prepared artifacts
appcenter test run uitest	Starts a test run with Xamarin UI Tests
appcenter test run xcuitest	Starts a test run with XCUITest tests
appcenter tokens create	Create a new API token
appcenter tokens delete	Delete an API token
appcenter tokens list	Get a list of API tokens

Please use the appcenter help command to get more information about each one.

Contributing

Please see the contributing file for an introduction to the codebase and what the various moving parts are.

Known issues

Check out known issues for a list of known issues, and potential workarounds.

Security

Check out SECURITY.md for any security concern with this project.

Code of Conduct

This project has adopted the Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct. For more information see the Code of Conduct FAQ or contact opencode@microsoft.com with any additional questions or comments.