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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

Integration with Azure services

So far, we have only utilized Cosmos DB in the context of logic apps and Azure functions among the many Azure services that we can integrate with Azure serverless components. In this section, we will analyze the other available integration options for Azure serverless components with other Azure resources.

As you have seen, these integrations are available through bindings for Azure functions and through connectors for logic apps. Using this integrated business model, multiple architectural patterns can be composed, and event-driven scenarios can be accomplished.

The following sections will take you through repository-, queue-, and event-based Azure resources that can be integrated with Azure serverless components. Let's take a deeper look at some of these integrated services.

Repository

In the Azure Serverless context, it is fair to say that almost all Azure repository models are tightly integrated with the infrastructure. Let&apos...