Azure mobile services
- 2. Maurizio Moriconi @bugman79 CTO Mobilesoft Connected & Disconnected Apps with Azure Mobile Apps
- 3. We Apps! 224M downloads a day 5 hours on phone a day 90%time on apps
- 4. The average app user has 36 apps installed on his or her phone.
- 5. Only 1/4 are used daily:
- 6. 1/4 of apps are never used!
- 7. • Slow or laggy experience • Crashes • Not intuitive & bad user experience • Features not as advertised • Data not available when you need it Bad App Experiences
- 11. What about a backend?
- 12. • On average, 54—62% of costs are associated with infrastructure • Hosting solutions • System Administrator • DB Administrator • Backup • Scaling • Continuous Deployment Reducing Mobile App Development Costs
- 13. Platform As A Service (PAAS)
- 14. Plenty of Options Amazon Web Services Azure Mobile Apps IBM MobileFirst Oracle Mobile Cloud Firebase Couchbase Realm Parse
- 15. • Flexible • Easy Apis/Tables • App Service! • C# SDKs available everywhere: • C# iOS, Android, & Windows with Xamarin • C# clients, written by C# developers (open source) • C# backend with ASP.NET • Node.js for backend! • Continuous deployment / integration Why Azure?
- 16. Shared C# codebase • 100% native API access • High performance iOS C# UI Windows C# UIAndroid C# UI Shared C# Mobile C# Server Linux/Mono CoreCLRAzure Shared C# Client/Server Xamarin Apps + Backend Services
- 18. Shared C# codebase • 100% native API access • High performance iOS C# UI Windows C# UIAndroid C# UI Shared C# Mobile C# Server Linux/Mono CoreCLRAzure Shared C# Client/Server Mobile + Server
- 19. New template on Visual Studio for Mac
- 20. • Node.js • Easy authorization (CRUD based on REST actions) • Online Editor! • Integrated on Client SDKs Easy APIs
- 21. • Great for simple data storage • Visual Editor to create tables or create tables based on the app’s model!! • CRUD • Support Authorization/Authentication • Trigger events on CRUD (ex. Send a push when an item is added to a table) Easy Tables
- 22. • Allow end-users to create and modify data even when there is no network access • Sync works across multiple devices • SQLite Database • Client SDK available for Xamarin, alternatively use REST API • Backend written in Node.js Offline Sync
- 23. • Rolling your own account infrastructure is difficult and time-consuming • Secure your app with prebuilt authentication providers • Facebook • Twitter • Google • Microsoft • Azure AD • Anything OAuth 2 Authentication
- 24. • Easy-to-use, multiplatform scaled push infrastructure that allows you to send push notifications almost anywhere. Push Notifications
- 25. • Sync files to Azure Storage, just like you did for structured data. File Sync
- 26. Let’s add a backend
- 27. Connected Services on Visual Studio for Mac
- 28. Create app from Azure Portal!!!