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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 12: Managing Application Data

Most mobile applications are coupled with certain datasets that are either downloaded through a service backend or bundled into the application. These datasets can vary from simple static text content to real-time updates of a transactional set related to a certain context. In this context, the developers are tasked with creating the optimal balance between remote interaction and data caching. Moreover, offline support is becoming the norm in the mobile application development world. In order to avoid data conflicts and synchronization issues, developers must be diligent about the procedures that are implemented according to the type of data at hand. In this chapter, we will discuss possible data synchronization and offline storage scenarios using SQLite and Akavache, as well as the new .NET Core modules, such as Entity Framework Core.

The following sections will give you insights into how to manage application data:

  • Improving HTTP performance...