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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

Introducing CI/CD

Let's start the chapter with CI and CD pipelines. In this section, we will be focusing on understanding the foundational concepts for a properly set-up development and delivery pipeline.

In the previous chapters, we have set up various build definitions to create application binaries and packages that can be used as deployment artifacts. While preparing these artifacts, we implemented automated tests that can be included in automated build definitions. This process of automating the building and testing of code every time a team member introduces changes to version control is generally referred to as CI. CI, coupled with a mature version control system and a well-defined branching strategy, is the primary factor in encouraging developers to be bolder and more agile with their commits, contributing to a high release cadence.

On the other hand, CD is the (generally) automated process of building, testing, and configuring your application and...