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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 a Logic App

Logic apps are simple, event-driven workflow declarations that can utilize a number of intrinsic actions as well as other Azure serverless resources. They also work on a similar trigger-based execution strategy to Azure functions. In this section, we will learn how to create simple workflows using logic apps and how to integrate them with other Azure resources.

When tasked with implementing a logic app, in theory, a developer will not necessarily need anything else other than a text editor, since logic apps are an extension of ARM resource templates. The manifest for a logic app consists of four main ingredients:

  • Parameters
  • Triggers
  • Actions
  • Outputs

Parameters, triggers, and outputs, similar to the binding concept from Azure functions, define when and how the application is going to be executed. Actions define what the application should do.

Logic apps can be created using an IDE with an additional schema and/or visual support...