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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

Choosing the right app model

The Azure stack offers multiple ways to host web applications, varying from simple Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offerings such as Virtual Machines (VMs) to completely managed PaaS hosting services such as App Service. Because of the platform-agnostic nature of .NET Core and ASP.NET Core, even Linux containers and container orchestration services such as Kubernetes are available options.

Azure compute offers can be organized according to the separation of responsibilities into three main categories, namely IaaS, PaaS, and Containers as a Service (CaaS), as shown in the following diagram:

Figure 9.1 – Managed Hosting Models

Besides IaaS and PaaS, there are various hosting options, each with its own advantages and use cases. We will now take a closer look at these offerings.

The following sections will walk you through different application hosting models in the Azure ecosystem.

Azure virtual machines

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