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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

Understanding Azure Serverless

Developing a distributed system on a cloud platform has its perks as well as its disadvantages, such as growing complexity as the data you are managing spreads across multiple processes. It is extremely common to find yourself in a deadlock situation where you have to compromise on architectural requirements in favor of decreasing the cost of introducing a new feature. Azure serverless components can provide flexible solutions to ad hoc requirements with their simplistic event-driven computing experience.

In Chapter 8, Creating a Datastore with Cosmos DB, we created a document structure as a repository, and later, in Chapter 9, Creating Microservices Azure App Services, we implemented ASP.NET Core services as containerized microservices so that we could cover our main application use cases. These use cases can be considered the primary data flow through the application, and our main concern for performance is concentrated on these data paths. Nevertheless...