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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

Creating and using release templates


As previously discussed, once the CI is complete, published build artifacts should ideally be transferred into the release pipeline, starting the CD phase. Azure DevOps release templates and infrastructure provide a complete release management solution, which, without the need for any additional platform such as Jenkins, Octopus, or TeamCity, can handle the CI/CD pipeline.

Azure DevOps releases

A release definition is made up of two main components: artifacts and stages. Using triggers and gates, the deployment of artifacts to target stages is organized and managed.

Release artifacts

Release artifacts are the elements that provide the components for the release tasks. These artifacts can vary from simple compiled application libraries to source code retrieved directly from the application repositories:

Let's take a closer look at these artifact types:

  • Azure Pipelines: This is the most commonly used artifact type, which allows the build pipelines to pass the...