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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

Summary

Cosmos DB provides a new perspective to the NoSQL database concept, with a wide range of services for various scenarios. Additionally, with Cosmos DB access models, in comparison to relational data models, consumer applications have more responsibility for the referential data integrity. The weak links between the data containers can be used as an advantage by a microservice architecture.

In this chapter, you have created a completely new Cosmos DB resource using the SQL API as our access model. However, other access models were discussed, and we have also executed sample queries on Mongo. Once the Cosmos DB resource was created, you created sample document collections, modeled your data, and implemented simple repository classes to access this data. You now understand the fundamental concepts of Cosmos DB and are ready to use it as your persistence store.

In the next chapter, we will be creating the service layer for our application suite.