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Hands-On Mobile Development with .NET Core

By : Can Bilgin
Book Image

Hands-On Mobile Development with .NET Core

By: Can Bilgin

Overview of this book

.NET Core is the general umbrella term used for Microsoft’s cross-platform toolset. Xamarin, used for developing mobile applications, is one of the app model implementations for .NET Core infrastructure. In this book, you'll learn how to design, architect, and develop attractive, maintainable, and robust mobile applications for multiple platforms, including iOS, Android, and UWP, with the toolset provided by Microsoft using Xamarin, .NET Core, and Azure Cloud Services. This book will take you through various phases of application development using Xamarin, from environment setup, design, and architecture to publishing, with the help of real-world scenarios. Throughout the book, you'll learn how to develop mobile apps using Xamarin, Xamarin.Forms, and .NET Standard. You'll even be able to implement a web-based backend composed of microservices with .NET Core using various Azure services including, but not limited to, Azure App Services, Azure Active Directory, Notification Hub, Logic Apps, Azure Functions, and Cognitive Services. The book then guides you in creating data stores using popular database technologies such as Cosmos DB, SQL, and Realm. Finally, you will be able to set up an efficient and maintainable development pipeline to manage the application life cycle using Visual Studio App Center and Visual Studio Services.
Table of Contents (26 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

CI/CD with GitFlow


The easiest way to illustrate CI/CD would be walk through the policies and procedures, starting with GitFlow. Here, we are dealing with two separate repositories, namely, web and application, and each of these repositories have their own life cycle.

 

In other words, while it is not advised, it is possible to have unsynchronized releases and versions of our web application (that is, the service infrastructure) and application (that is, mobile platform releases); hence, it is important to create backward-compatible modules and communicate releases to development team members.

Development

Development of the application or web modules start with the creation of a feature branch (for example, feature/12345). The feature branch can be shared between multiple developers or handled by a single developer. If the feature branch is being worked on by multiple developers, user branches can be created following a similar convention along the lines of user/<user identifier>/<feature...