Microsoft has announced its plans to shut down HockeyApp and replace it with Visual Studio App Center. The company had acquired the startup behind HockeyApp back in 2014, and if you’re still using the app, you must know that the service will officially shut down on November 16, 2019.
HockeyApp was a service that let you distribute beta versions of your app, get crash reports and analytics. There are other similar SDKs, such as Google’s Crashlytics, TestFairy, Appaloosa, DeployGate and native beta distribution channels.
Last year, the company called App Center “the future of HockeyApp”. The company has also been cloning your HockeyApp projects into App Center for a while.
It doesn’t mean that you’ll find the same features in App Center just yet. Also, let’s hope that Microsoft has enough time to release everything before HockeyApp shuts down.