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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

Understanding Cognitive Services


AI and machine learning have always been attractive topics for computer scientists and software developers. Nevertheless, these topics require a deep understanding of complex subjects, such as neural networks, convolutions, ane clustering. In addition to the complexities of these machine learning concepts, the applications of these concepts can become even more complex and time-consuming. For developers that do not posses the skillset or the time to introduce complex machine learning algorithms to their projects, Azure Cognitive Services is a reasonable alternative.

Azure Cognitive Services is a set of APIs that can help developers to create intelligent applications with minimal knowledge of artificial intelligence and machine learning. These APIs can be used as part of the Azure cloud infrastructure and are grouped under five categories:

  • Vision APIs: The Vision API consists of several APIs that deal with image processing and pattern recognition. Computer vision...