Azure Mobile Services

Agenda
 Definition
 What’s the service is for ?
 How it works?
 Prices
 Architecture
 Data Storage
 Push Notifications
 Authentication
 Supports

Windows Azure Mobile Services
Azure Mobile Services is a Azure service
offering designed to make it easy to
create highly-functional mobile apps
using Azure. Mobile Services brings
together a set of Azure services that
enable backend capabilities for your
app. Integration with Microsoft Visual
Studio 2013 makes it easy to connect to
Mobile Services without having to log
into the Azure Management Portal.

 Use single sign-on with Active Directory,
Facebook, Twitter, and Google
 Push notifications to individual users and
dynamic audience segments
 Store data in SQL, Table Storage, and MongoDB
 Access on-premises systems, Office 365, and
SharePoint
 Use cloud-based sync to build apps that work
offline

Azure Mobile Services Benefits!

Why Use Azure Mobile Services?
 Quick and extreme scalability
 Support for every platform
 Use the parts you need
 Easily build cloud back-ends

Azure Mobile Services Strategies
Provie a backend to an app running on any
device.
Store your data in the cloud or offline.
Authenticate users using
Facebook,Twitter,Microsoft Account, or Active
Directory.
Built-in support for cross-platform push
notifications.

What needed for Mobile Application?
Identity
Windows Azure Mobile Services
Structured Storage
Messaging Media
Unstructured Storage
Additional Services

Mobile Platforms
Android
Java
Eclipse
IntelliJ
Windows
Phone
C#/Visua
l Basic/F#
Visual
Studio
iOS
Objec
tive C
Xcode

Supported Platforms and Features
Platforms
 IOS
 Android
 Windows Phone
 Windows 8
 HTML/JavaScript
 PhoneGap
 Xamarin
Features
 Data and queries
 Push Notifications
 Authendication
 Server-side scripts
 Custom API
 Offline sync
 Mass push
 Git integration

Backend Mobile Services in the Cloud

Data Storage and Access
Data Storage
 New or Existing Database
 Reporting, TSQL support, existing tools, etc.
 Manage your way (portal, REST API, SSMS, etc.)
In Windows Azure Mobile Services, data is stored in tables, which are maintained
in the Windows Azure SQL Database that is associated with your mobile service.
Data Access
 REST API
 OData Interface
 GET, POST, PATCH, DELETE
DB

Rest API
https://Mobileservice.azure-mobile.net/tables/*
Data Operations and their REST Equivalents

Security
Application Key
 NOT A SECURITY TOKEN/CONTROL
 Hint that user is coming from your app (reduce chance of misuse)
 Private until you publish the app
Master Key
 All powerful
 Do NOT distribute with your application
 Use from server-side logic you control

Authentication
 Mobile Services integrates with the following identity providers to make
it easy to authenticate users from your app:
 Microsoft Account
 Facebook login
 Twitter login
 Google login
 To enable authentication, you must first register your app with one or
more of these identity providers and then configure your mobile
service.
 You must also add authentication code to your app.

Authentication
Microsoft Account, Facebook, Twitter, and Google
OAuth
Does not use Windows Azure ACS

PUSH Notification
 Mobile Services can send push notifications to your apps.
 The way that you configure and send push notifications depends on your app.
 You can send push notifications to the following applications:
 Windows Store app by using the Windows Push Notification Service (WNS). You can send push
notifications to your app, you must configure your mobile service to work with WNS.
 iPhone and iPad apps by using the Apple Push Notification Service (APNS). You can send
push notifications to your app, you must configure your mobile service to work with APNS. Do
this by generating a special push notification certificate at the iOS Provisioning Portal
 Android: You can send push notifications to Android apps by using the Google Cloud
Messaging (GCM) service. You can send push notifications to your app, you must configure
your mobile service to work with GCM.
 Windows Phone 8 app by using the Microsoft Push Notification Service (MPNS). Mobile
Services does not require you to register your Windows Phone 8 app to send push
notifications.

How Push Notifications Work ?
Retrieve device handle
Device notified (even when app is inactive)
Store handle in app back-end Send notification to handle

Architecture
Zumo
Resource
Provider
Zumo
Mgmt DB Site 1
SQL 2 SQL N
Zumo
Runtime
SQL 1
Scheduler
RDFE
Site 2 Site N
Azure
SDK
3rd
party
SDKS
Azure LBARR
App
Scripts
Win8
Device
iPhone
Portal

Scheduler
Execute scripts on a Schedule (by minutes / hours /days /month)
Execute scripts on demand
İdeal for backend data processing
Removing dublicate records from a table
Backing up a database
Send a report via email.
 When your mobile service runs in free mode, you can create only
one scheduled job at a time; in reserved mode, you can create
up to ten scheduled jobs at the same time.

Diagnostics
 API Calls
 CPU Time
 Data Out

Logging
console object
log(formatString, obj, .. .)
info(…)
warn(…)
error(…)
Mobile Services;
Writes system and script errors to the log.
Your registered server scripts can also write information directly to the log by using
the console object.

Scale
Compute
 Scale out number of instances
 Scale up the VM size
Storage
 Dedicated SQL Database
 Larger sized SQL Database
 On the Scale table, you can scale your mobile service by switching to
reserved mode and adding role instances.
 You can also scale the Windows Azure SQL Database instance used by the
service.

Free Offer at Preview
10 Mobile
Services
Running on
shared
instances
1GB SQL
Database
From WA Free Trial
No SLA during Preview. Only small instances available. Can upgrade to a reserved
instance at 33% discount from normal Pay-As-You-Go rates during Preview.

Case Studies
Bing (news,finance,sports..) Social 2014

Brief Summary
 Easy to study,even for free
 Multiple Services,one database possible
 Killer features, all out of the box
 SDK for IOS,Android,Windows 8, Windows phone 8
 Full REST supported(e.g.Windows Phone 7)
TİPS:
Version the server side scripts separately
Use logging wisely
Integrate with Service Bus, Storage, Queues.

Resources
 Windows Azure Mobile Services
 http://aka.ms/mobileservices
 SDK and Samples available on GitHub
 https://github.com/WindowsAzure/azure-mobile-services
 Inside Windows Azure Mobile Services
 http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Kirill-Gavrylyuk-and-Josh-Twist-Inside-Windows-Azure-
Mobile-Services
 Windows Azure FREE Trial
 http://bit.ly/MikeAzureTrial

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