Come and Get Excited about Azure Mobile Services and Xamarin.Forms

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1 Come and Get Excited about Azure Mobile Services and A story about Azure Mobile Services, SQL Azure and Xamarin Presented By: Fabian G. Williams

About the Speaker Fabian Williams, MCSD, MCDBa, MCSE SharePoint Architect www.

2 About the Speaker Fabian Williams, MCSD, MCDBa, MCSE SharePoint Architect linkedin.com/in/fabiangwilliams

3 Objective Understanding Xamarin and its Role in Mobile Development Understanding the Role of Windows Azure Mobile Services (WAMS) and its role in Mobile Development What is and the Pre Reqs needed for Mobile Development Understanding Views(Controls), Layouts, Pages & Data Binding Exploring a Simple Use Case to Explore the Capabilities Explore a WAMS solution utilizing for Cross Platform Development

4 Office 365 Brief Logical Overview Architecture of Xamarin Session Flow Brief Overview of WAMS Demo Setup Xamarin in Windows & Mac & Why What is Demo Xamarin.Form in Windows & Mac Exploring a WAMS Solution Demo two distinct Solutions on Q&A

5 The Anatomy of a Native App Native User Interfaces Native API Access Native Performance

6 The Silo Approach Build App Multiple Times Swift

7 The Write-Once-Run-Anywhere Approach Lowest Common Denominator

8 Native With Code Sharing Xamarin s Unique Approach

9 Windows APIs

10 ios APIs 100% Coverage

11 Android APIs 100% Coverage

12 Anything you can do in Objective-C, Swift, or Java can be done in C# with Xamarin using Visual Studio

13 Office 365 Brief Logical Overview Architecture of Xamarin Session Flow Brief Overview of WAMS Demo Setup Xamarin in Windows & Mac & Why What is Demo Xamarin.Form in Windows & Mac Exploring a WAMS Solution Demo two distinct Solutions on Q&A

14 REST API Mobile Services SQL Table Storage Blob Storage Mongo DB Hybrid Connections Node.js Express ASP.NET Web API Windows Store ios Android HTML 5/JS Xamarin PhoneGap Sencha Facebook Twitter Microsoft Google Azure Active Directory Offline sync WNS APNS GCM Notification Hubs Source Control

15 What is Azure Mobile Service & Where does it Live 1. ure.com 2. From Navigation Click Mobile Services 3. Click New to Create a new AMS 4. You have different platforms to choose from

16 Azure SQL Server Synced DB Table

17 Cloud Services created for the Mobile Service which serves as the Web API

18 Two Projects in the Solution Web API Project Abstracted for Model, Data Access Layer and Controller (MVC) Client Project Same MVC Model

19 Office 365 Brief Logical Overview Architecture of Xamarin Session Flow Brief Overview of WAMS Demo Setup Xamarin in Windows & Mac & Why What is Demo Xamarin.Form in Windows & Mac Exploring a WAMS Solution Demo two distinct Solutions on Q&A

20 1. Demo To Do DEMO

21 Office 365 Brief Logical Overview Architecture of Xamarin Session Flow Brief Overview of WAMS Demo Setup Xamarin in Windows & Mac & Why What is Demo Xamarin.Form in Windows & Mac Exploring a WAMS Solution Demo two distinct Solutions on Q&A

22 Xamarin + Traditional Xamarin approach With : more code-sharing, native controls Shared UI Code

23 Xamarin + Quickly and easily build native user interfaces using shared code elements map to native controls and behaviors Shared UI Code Mix-and-match with native APIs

24 What s Included 40+ Pages, Layouts, and Controls Build from code behind or XAML Two-way Data Binding Navigation Animation API Dependency Service Messaging Center

25 Views(Controls) ActivityIndicator BoxView Button DatePicker Editor Entry Image Label ListView Map OpenGLView Picker ProgressBar SearchBar Slider Stepper TableView TimePicker WebView EntryCell ImageCell SwitchCell TextCell ViewCell

26 Layouts Stack Absolute Relative Grid ContentView ScrollView Frame

27 Pages Content MasterDetail Navigation Tabbed Carousel

28 Office 365 Brief Logical Overview Architecture of Xamarin Session Flow Brief Overview of WAMS Demo Setup Xamarin in Windows & Mac & Why What is Demo Xamarin.Form in Windows & Mac Exploring a WAMS Solution Demo two distinct Solutions on Q&A

29 Data Objects are used as Entity Object to Persist Data to the SQL Backend through Code First EF

30 Add DbSets to instantiate a Table instance of your Entity to the Database

31 Add Controllers for CRUD Opperations and Seed your Data Set

32 1. Demo To Do DEMO

33 Office 365 Brief Logical Overview Architecture of Xamarin Session Flow Brief Overview of WAMS Demo Setup Xamarin in Windows & Mac & Why What is Demo Xamarin.Form in Windows & Mac Exploring a WAMS Solution Demo two distinct Solutions on Q&A

34 Office 365 Brief Logical Overview Architecture of Xamarin Session Flow Brief Overview of WAMS Demo Setup Xamarin in Windows & Mac & Why What is Demo Xamarin.Form in Windows & Mac Exploring a WAMS Solution Demo two distinct Solutions on Q&A

35 1. Demo To Do DEMO

36 Office 365 Brief Logical Overview Architecture of Xamarin Session Flow Brief Overview of WAMS Demo Setup Xamarin in Windows & Mac & Why What is Demo Xamarin.Form in Windows & Mac Exploring a WAMS Solution Demo two distinct Solutions on Q&A

Chris Key. Senior Consultant. Open Circle Solutions

Chris Key. Senior Consultant. Open Circle Solutions Chris Key Senior Consultant Open Circle Solutions www.opencirclesolutions.com Series Part 1: Introduction to Xamarin mobile development September 14 Part 2: Building Cross Platform Mobile Applications