Azure and Xamarin Forms: Cross Platform Mobile Development

ISBN-13: 9781484235607 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 260 str.

Russell Fustino

Opis

This book illustrates how to utilize Azure cloud storage for serving up Azure SQL DB data through Azure App Services.The book starts by setting up Xamarin and introducing Xamarin Forms and then covers the Azure Portal from a developer's perspective and goes on to demonstrate how to build an Azure Service using Quickstart.

Spis treści

Azure and Xamarin Forms 

Chapter 1: Installing Visual Studio 2017

Goal: In this chapter, you will install the required products to complete all the exercises in this book. This includes Visual Studio, Xamarin, and third-party tools such as Syncfusion ListView and Xamarin Plug-ins.

Chapter 2:  Introduction to Xamarin Forms  

Goal: Create Your First Xamarin Forms application.  Use StackLayout and Grid. Review of Tablet and Phone form factors. Working with Images and ListView.

Chapter 3: Introduction to Azure: a Developer's Perspective

Goal: Overview of portal, subscriptions, billing and navigation. Creating VM and Web App, Function App, Logic App, App service plan, API App, Mobile App, and API management. 

Chapter 4: Building an Azure Service Using Quickstart 

Goal: Create a Mobile App in the Azure Portal, Modify the Service app,  Add the question and response DTOs and endpoints. Add controllers to the Controllers Folder, Seed the data and force Entity Framework to recreate our tables. Verify the Database

Chapter 5: Building a Xamarin Forms Azure Client

Goal: Open an Existing Xamarin Forms application. Add Azure support to a Xamarin Forms application. Customize the DTOs for the Poll service. Fill in the logic to query and update our Poll records. Add support to our app for offline data caching. Synchronizing to the remote database

Chapter 6: Delete Resources in Your Subscription

O autorze

Russ is CEO of Fustino Brothers, Inc, makers of the Endorsed Jethro Tull App, and a Microsoft MVP in Windows Development. In addition to being a former developer evangelist for Microsoft, he has also been one for Russ’ ToolShed, Xamarin, Raygun & ComponentOne. Russ is a former Azure Senior Cloud Solutions Architect for Opsgility. He is highly experienced in developing cross platform apps using Xamarin and C# for UWP, Android and iOS. Russ is a Xamarin Certified Mobile Developer software developer. He has a passion for conveying relevant, current, and future software development technologies and tools through live seminars, teaching, and internet video productions. Russ heads up a user group in the Tampa Florida area: Mobile Application Dev Tampa (www.MADTampa.com). Russ is also the local PC Handyman for his community, fixing virus problems and providing tune-ups for his neighborhood and helping folks that have been scammed on their PC. Please like https://www.facebook.com/PCHandymanRussFustino/   as well as  https://www.facebook.com/Fustinobrothers/.  On Twitter follow @FustinoBrothers and @RussFustino to keep tabs on him. Russ has enlightened, entertained and educated over 1 million developers in his career and is a recipient of the INETA Lifetime Achievement award.

Blurb

Discover how to create cross platform apps for Android, iOS and UWP using Azure services and C# with Xamarin Forms. This book illustrates how to utilize Azure cloud storage for serving up Azure SQL DB data through Azure App Services.

The book starts by setting up Xamarin and introducing Xamarin Forms and then covers the Azure Portal from a developer’s perspective and goes on to demonstrate how to build an Azure Service using Quickstart. You'll also see how to add Azure support to Xamarin Forms application. You'll review in detail how to build a Xamarin Form with Azure Client and modify an existing app to become a Xamarin Forms Client for Azure with offline synchronization.

You then move on to third-party controls that speed up development. By the end of the book, you will be able to use Azure and Xamarin together and master how to use Azure Mobile Quickstarts, Azure SQL plumbing, database synchronization and Xamarin Forms.