#XamarinDevDays

Maurizio Moriconi@bugman79CTO Mobilesoft

Connected & Disconnected Apps with Azure Mobile Apps

We Apps!

224Mdownloads

a day

5hours on

phone a day

90%time on

apps

The average app user has 36 apps installed on his or her phone.

Only 1/4 are used daily:

1/4 of apps are never used!

• Slow or laggy experience• Crashes• Not intuitive & bad user experience• Features not as advertised• Data not available when you need it

Bad App Experiences

Always connected?

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What about a backend?

• 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

Platform As A Service (PAAS)

Plenty of Options

Amazon Web Services

Azure Mobile Apps IBM MobileFirst

Oracle Mobile Cloud

Firebase Couchbase

Realm

Parse

• 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?

Shared C# codebase • 100% native API access • High performance

iOS C# UI

Windows C# UIAndroid C# UI

Shared C# Mobile

C# Server

Linux/MonoCoreCLRAzure

Shared C# Client/Server

Xamarin Apps + Backend Services

Azure Mobile Apps

WindowsAndroid

Chrome

iOS OSX

Kindle

Shared C# codebase • 100% native API access • High performance

iOS C# UI

Windows C# UIAndroid C# UI

Shared C# Mobile

C# Server

Linux/MonoCoreCLRAzure

Shared C# Client/Server

Mobile + Server

New template on Visual Studio for Mac

• Node.js• Easy authorization (CRUD based on REST

actions)• Online Editor! • Integrated on Client SDKs

Easy APIs

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Easy-to-use, multiplatform scaled push infrastructure that allows you to send push notifications almost anywhere.

Push Notifications

• Sync files to Azure Storage, just like you did for structured data.

File Sync

Let’s add a backend

Connected Services on Visual Studio for Mac

Create app from Azure Portal!!!

Lunch!

MaurizioMoriconiCTO Mobilesoft

maurizio.moriconi@mobilesoft.it

@bugman79