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Mobile Development with .NET - Second Edition

By : Can Bilgin
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Mobile Development with .NET - Second Edition

By: Can Bilgin

Overview of this book

Are you a .NET developer who wishes to develop mobile solutions without delving into the complexities of a mobile development platform? If so, this book is a perfect solution to help you build professional mobile apps without leaving the .NET ecosystem. Mobile Development with .NET will show you how to design, architect, and develop robust mobile applications for multiple platforms, including iOS, Android, and UWP using Xamarin, .NET Core, and Azure. With the help of real-world scenarios, you'll explore different phases of application development using Xamarin, from environment setup, design, and architecture to publishing. Throughout the book, you'll learn how to develop mobile apps using Xamarin 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 Active Directory, Azure Functions. As you advance, you'll create data stores using popular database technologies such as Cosmos DB and data models such as the relational model and NoSQL. By the end of this mobile application development book, you'll be able to create cross-platform mobile applications that can be deployed as cloud-based PaaS and SaaS.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
1
Section 1: Understanding .NET
5
Section 2: Xamarin and Xamarin.Forms
9
Section 3: Azure Cloud Services
14
Section 4: Advanced Mobile Development
18
Section 5: Application Life Cycle Management

An overview of Azure services

We are living in the age of cloud computing. Many of the software paradigms that we learned and applied to our applications 10 years ago are now completely obsolete. The good old n-tier applications and development team simplicity have been replaced by distributed modules for the sake of maintainability and performance.

Without further ado, let's start preparing the scope of our application by setting up the architecture and exploring the concepts of the Azure platform.

An introduction to distributed systems

In this section, we will discuss different hosting models for a distributed backend system and what the pros and cons are of these setups.

In the previous chapters of this book, we started the development of our client application; this will require some additional views and modifications. In order to continue with the development, we first need to set up our backend. For our application, we will need a service backend that will do...