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# Microsoft Retires App Center

**[Ionic Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/ionic)** · 3 min read · 2 upvotes · 1 comments

## Summary

Microsoft is retiring its App Center product, causing developers to seek alternatives for mobile app building and releasing. Ionic's Appflow offers a solution for native binary build processes and provides managed and secure build environments for iOS, Android, and web apps.

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**@usmankazmi** · 1 upvotes

> Are they forcing developers to use Azure pipelines?

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