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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

Improving HTTP performance with transient caching

In this section, we will take a look at the fundamentals of client-side caching and learn about ways to improve the communication line between the client application and web APIs on the server infrastructure. We will expand on the topic of transient caching using client cache aside and ETags, as well as request-specific caching using key/value stores.

In Chapter 11, Fluid Applications with Asynchronous Patterns, the client application held a direct asynchronous service communication line with the service infrastructure. This way, the mobile application would load fresh data that was required to display a certain view on every view-model creation. While this provides an up-to-date context for the application, it might not be the most desirable experience for the user since, when we're dealing with mobile applications, we would need to account for bandwidth and network speed issues.

When developing a mobile application, it...