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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

Chapter 11: Fluid Applications with Asynchronous Patterns

One of the key attributes of an attractive mobile application is its responsiveness. Applications that do not interfere with the interaction of the user and, instead, maintain the ability to render and execute user gestures in a smooth manner are more desirable by users. In order to achieve fast and fluid application norms, together with performance, asynchronous execution patterns come to the rescue. When developing Xamarin applications, as well as ASP.NET Core, both the task's framework and reactive modules can help distribute the execution threads and create a smooth and uninterrupted execution flow.

In this chapter, we will learn about what really makes up the task framework and the foundational concepts related to it. We will also go over some of the most prominent patterns associated with asynchronous execution models with awaitables and observables, and then apply them to various sections of the application....