- Feb 15, 2021 xCloud articles on MacRumors.com. Microsoft has announced that following beta testing for a small group of users, it plans to launch its xCloud game streaming service on Apple devices via Safari.
- Apr 30, 2021 For the past three years or so, Microsoft has been working on a cloud-gaming service which was known as Project xCloud. Late last year, Microsoft officially launched this service as a competitor to Google Stadia, NVIDIA GeForce Now, and others. But with the official launch came a rebranding, and xCloud is now known as Xbox Cloud Gaming.
Xbox Cloud Gaming (formerly known as Project xCloud) is Microsoft 's Xbox cloud gaming service. Initially released in beta testing in November 2019, the service later launched for subscribers of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate on September 15, 2020. Xbox Game Pass cloud gaming is provided to subscribers of Ultimate at no additional cost.
In general we recommend Nevercode.io for building iOS applications. But we also have a special build runner that can run iOS or Mac OS builds if needed.
To enable us to build the Amplify DX Desktop App for Mac, we have rented an OS X server from XCloud for running GitLab CI builds. We are paying for their lowest-end server, so this is not fast, but so far it works for our purposes.
Xcloud Osx App
Running CI Jobs Using this Runner¶
GitLab CI is very flexible and allows us to have a CI pipeline for a particular project that runs some jobs in Docker containers (like normal) and other jobs using our OS X runner. To enable a job to be run on the OS X server do the following
Xcloud Osx Vs
Activate this specific runner for a Project under Settings > CI/CD > Runners Settings > Specific Runners. Look for 'XCloud OS X Runner'
For the job(s) you want to run on the Mac server add this to the
.gitlab-ci.ymlfile:
In this example, most jobs will run using the Docker image appirio/dx:latest using a shared CI runner, but the hello_world job will run on our XCloud server.