Book Image

Mobile Development with .NET - Second Edition

By : Can Bilgin
Book Image

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

Overall, UWP is one of the most sophisticated members of the .NET family. While being quite similar to the Xamarin.Forms architecture in nature and utilizing a similar compilation/execution process, it differs in certain fundamental aspects such as the XAML syntax and application life cycle. However, as we saw when we implemented the calculator application, it can easily be included in, and executed with, Xamarin and Xamarin.Forms projects without increasing development timeline or maintenance costs. The extensibility SDKS we have looked at also showed us the added benefit of you being able to deliver your applications to various UWPs.

In the next chapter, we will concentrate on Xamarin and Xamarin.Forms and different architectural models that we can utilize.