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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

Distributing with App Center

Aside from the build, test, and telemetry collection features of App Center, the main feature of App Center is that you can manage the distribution of prerelease applications, as well as automating submissions to public and private App Stores.

App Center releases

Once the application package has been pushed from the build pipeline to App Center, an application release is created. This release represents a version of the application package. This package can be distributed to a distribution group within the current distribution ring or an external distribution target:

Figure 14.21 – App Center Release

When a release is created, it can be accessed by the collaborators group (that is, developers who have management access to App Center).

AppCenter distribution groups

Distribution groups are groups of developers and testers that an application release (environment- and platform-specific versions of the app) can be...