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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

Summary

In this chapter, we completed the CI/CD pipelines for both the Xamarin repository and the Azure web infrastructure. We have seen that the toolset offered by Azure DevOps is perfectly suitable for implementing a GitFlow branching strategy. This toolset is also used for managing the application life cycle by implementing branch policies and setting up CI triggers. Additionally, we have seen how the CI phase should also be used to maintain the code quality and technical debt. Finally, we discussed strategies for implementing release pipelines for both distributed Azure and native mobile applications.

With this final chapter, we have reached the end of the development of our project. At the beginning of the book, after refreshing our knowledge about various .NET concepts, runtimes, frameworks as well as platforms, we moved on to Xamarin development. We created and customized Xamarin applications using the .NET Standard framework and Xamarin platform runtimes....