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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

The QA process

In each phase of a CD process, the quality of the features should be verified preferably with an automated process or, at the very least, with proper code reviews. This is where the pull request creation and validation process become even more important. Nevertheless, as mentioned, the QA of an artifact or a branch is not limited to the CI phases of the process but runs throughout the CI/CD pipeline.

As you can see, we can have various quality checks for both the source code and the produced artifacts such as code reviews, automated tests, and even static code analysis for identifying both code smells and coding convention issues. Let's take a closer look at these QA steps.

Code review

A healthy development team should be driven by collaboration. In this context, the concept of peer review is extremely important, since it gives the chance for the development team to suggest and advise on improvements of a colleague's work. Azure...