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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

Azure Serverless

As you may have noticed, in modern cloud applications, PaaS components are more abundant than IaaS resources. Here, application VMs are replaced with smaller application containers, and the database as a platform replaces the clustered database servers. Azure Serverless takes infrastructure and platform management one step further. In a serverless resource model, such as Azure Functions, event-driven application logic is executed on-demand on a platform that is provisioned, scaled, and managed by the platform itself. In the Azure Serverless platform, event triggers can vary from message queues to webhooks, with intrinsic integration into various resources within the ecosystem.

Azure functions

Azure functions are managed, event-driven logic implementations that can provide lightweight ad hoc solutions for the cloud architecture. In Azure functions, the engineering team is not only oblivious to the execution infrastructure, but also to the platform, since Azure...