Building a chat app with windows azure mobile services
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The document is a presentation on building a chat app using Windows Azure Mobile Services, covering various aspects such as storage, custom API, authentication, and push notifications. It highlights the ease of incorporating cloud backend services without the need for server code and emphasizes the framework's scalability and integration with different platforms. Additionally, it includes demos and case studies to illustrate the practical applications of these features.
Building a chat app with windows azure mobile services
- 1. Building a chat app with Windows Azure Mobile Services 1 march 2014, Timisoara
- 2. Flavius Radu Demian Software developer, Avaelgo I really like programming, like really love it I love web and mobile I won Excite 2 year ago Please feel free to ask questions any time and don’t be shy because Knowledge is power flaviusdemian91@yahoo.com | flavius.demian@gmail.com | @slowarad
- 3. Let’s begin… But before… This is for the ladies Have a nice spring !
- 4. Agenda Overview Storage Custom API Authentication & Authorisation Scheduler Diagnostics & Logging Scale Cool Third Party Add-Ons Event Timeline Review
- 6. Overview Clients for: Windows Store Windows Phone 8 iOS, Android, Javascript You can add a cloud backend to your app in minutes without the need for server code All the SDK’s are open source click me It’s integrated with GIT You can use filters on you clients to manipulate easily data click me Create Service, Download Free App and GIT ( add package) Demo click me
- 7. Storage Windows Azure SQL Database Dynamic schema on/off REST API generated per table Data centric platform Access your data through : Portal Sql Management Studio Rest API
- 8. Storage JSON to SQL data types conversions Demo with portal and sql server
- 9. Server side logic It is written in Node.js : is a software platform for scalable server-side and networking applications. applications are written in JavaScript can be run within the Node.js runtime on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux with no changes.
- 10. “Data Centric” Server Logic Backend runs Node js on small azure VM’s “Interceptors” exposed for all CRUD requests to all tables You only get access to a predefined set of node modules : request, console, push.*, tables, statusCodes, azure, mssql click me Demo with interceptors and packages
- 11. Custom API You can make your own api very quickly Let’s see how: click me and after let’s look at the demo
- 12. Push notifications The notification provider server mentains a "persistent IP connection" with your Device in order to deliver notifications when the app needs to 'say' something to you. Payload limited, specific to platform The global push object is used to send push notifications Success and Error callbacks are provided
- 13. Push notifications overview Windows Phone case study 1) The app requests a channel from the Notifications Provider 2) The app send the channel uri to Azure Mobile Services which stores it 3) When a notification is sent Azure Mobile Services executes something like this: push.mpns.send(channelUri….) 4. The notifications goes through the Notifications Provider which forwards it to the device Demo
- 14. Athentication & Authorisation You can make provide quick auth in your app with Facebook Twitter Google and Windows Azure Active Directory Microsoft
- 15. Authorisation Table level authorisation for CRUD operation Everyone: any request by anyone is accepted Anyone with Application Key: app key is sent on the request distributed ( default) Authenticated Users: users authenticated with one of the mentioned identity providers Scripts and Admins: registers scripts or requests via the master key The application key is not secure and should not be used to authenticate users of your app Demo
- 16. Scheduler Run jobs on simple or complex recurring schedules such as: Send broadcast push notifications Archiving old or duplicate data records Processing or resizing stored images Invoking a Web Service over HTTP/s Post a message to a Windows Azure Storage Queue Demo
- 17. Diagnostics and Logging View diagnostics directly in the portal including API calls, CPU time and Data Out LoggingConsole.* operations like console.log and console.error provide an easy means to debug your server side scripts. Demo
- 18. Scale Compute - scale between shared and reserved mode, Increase/decrease your instance count Storage ability to scale out your mobile service tenant(s) to a dedicated SQL DB Ability to scale up your SQL DB from web through business to 150GB
- 19. Cool Third Party Add-Ons Real time communication Emails SMS
- 20. Event Timeline
- 21. Review of Azure Mobile Services Create a scalable and secure backend for your Windows, Android, and iOS apps Store data in the cloud Easily authenticate users Send push notifications Consume your favorite services Monitor, alert, and auto scale Cheap and FREE in some cases -> click here Preview: No availability Service Level Agreement Paid: General Availability: 99.9%
- 22. Thanks Good luck at Excite I hope you will win and after that hold a presentation like I do now Let’s look more at the code, don’t worry the questions will come inevitably