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Mobile Development with .NET - Second Edition

By : Can Bilgin
Book Image

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

Native asynchronous execution

Other than the asynchronous infrastructure provided by .NET Core, Xamarin target platforms also offer some background execution procedures that might assist developers who are implementing modules that do work when the app is not actually working. In turn, various business processes are executed separately from the main application UI, creating a lightweight and responsive UX.

Android services

On the Android platform, the background process can be implemented as services. Services are execution modules that can be initiated on demand or with a schedule. For instance, a started service can be initiated with an intent. This would run until it is requested to be terminated (or self-terminates). Here, it is important to note that there is no direct communication between the process that initiated the service and the service itself, once the intent is actualized.

In order to implement a simple started service, you would need to implement the Service...