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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

Developing Azure Functions

Azure functions, as one of the earliest members of the Azure serverless ecosystem, provide a wide variety of options for development languages and SDKs, welcoming developers from different platforms. In this section, we will learn about the development options and function integration options. We will finally implement a sample Azure function to create a materialized view using data from different document stores in our Cosmos DB database.

The available options for development environments to develop Azure functions include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Using the Azure portal
  • Using the Azure CLI with Azure functions Core Tools
  • Using Visual Studio or Visual Studio Code
  • Using other IDEs such as Eclipse or IntelliJ IDEA

As for the language and runtime, we can create our functions with the following:

  • Java/Maven
  • Python
  • C# (.NET Core and Scripts)
  • JavaScript/Node
  • F# (.NET Core)

As you can see...