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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

Creating and using release templates

As previously discussed, once the CI is complete, published build artifacts should ideally be transferred into the release pipeline, starting the CD phase. Azure DevOps release templates and infrastructure provide a complete release management solution that, without the need for any additional platform such as Jenkins, Octopus, or TeamCity, can handle the CI/CD pipeline.

In this section, we will take a look at the basic release template elements and work out details for both Xamarin and Azure web application releases within separate release templates.

Azure DevOps releases

A release definition is made up of two main components: artifacts and stages. Using triggers and gates, the deployment of artifacts to target stages is organized and managed.

Release artifacts

Release artifacts are the elements that provide the components for the release tasks. These artifacts can vary...