Microsoft acquires Cross-platform Mobile Development Kit Hockeyapp

The Vice president of the development Department, Microsoft, announced on the official blog that the company had acquired the Mobile Developer Toolkit Hockeyapp and that its start-up team would join Microsoft as part of the acquisition, although the terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Hockeyapp provides a mobile development toolkit that provides developers with real-time crash Analysis reports, user feedback, beta distribution platforms, and test analytics to support popular mobile operating systems such as Android, iOS, and Windows Phone.

Microsoft is Hockeyapp's client, after acquiring Hockeyapp, Microsoft will integrate the former's toolkit into the Creator Insights service on visual Studio online to creator Insights's support extends to iOS and Android platforms.

Of course, Microsoft's rivals in the mobile arena are not idle. Twitter bought the crash Analytics service Crashlytics 1 years ago. Apple bought the developer burstly of the mobile test platform, TestFlight, in February this year, but TestFlight stopped supporting other platforms after Apple's takeover. Google has just launched its own Android Studio, but the IDE only supports Android, and testing tools are still to be perfected.

Microsoft, by contrast, has become more open and more integrated with developers, after Visual Studio has increased support for iOS and Android development, and the acquisition Hockeyapp also follows the idea of supporting the three mobile platforms, and is commendable.