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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 15: Application Telemetry with Application Insights

Agile application life cycle management dictates that after an application's release, performance and user feedback should be introduced back into the development cycle. Feedback information can provide vital clues to how to improve your application from both business and technical perspectives. Application Insights can be a great candidate for collecting telemetry data from Xamarin applications that use an Azure-hosted web service infrastructure because of its intrinsic integration with Azure modules, as well as its continuous export functionality for App Center telemetry.

In this chapter, we will be analyzing the data models and utilization of two different telemetry sources, namely App Center and Application Insights. We will take a look at the SDKs and what these platforms offer for user telemetry. The following sections will guide you through this chapter:

  • Collecting insights for Xamarin applications
  • ...