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Hands-On Mobile Development with .NET Core

You're reading from   Hands-On Mobile Development with .NET Core Build cross-platform mobile applications with Xamarin, Visual Studio 2019, and .NET Core 3

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789538519
Length 504 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (26) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: .NET Core and Cross-Platform Philosophy
2. Getting Started with .NET Core FREE CHAPTER 3. Xamarin, Mono, and .NET Standard 4. Universal Windows Platform 5. Section 2: Xamarin and Xamarin.Forms
6. Developing Mobile Applications with Xamarin 7. UI Development with Xamarin 8. Customizing Xamarin.Forms 9. Section 3: Azure Cloud Services
10. Azure Services for Mobile Applications 11. Creating a Datastore with Cosmos DB 12. Creating Microservices Azure App Services 13. Using .NET Core for Azure Serverless 14. Section 4: Advanced Mobile Development
15. Fluid Applications with Asynchronous Patterns 16. Managing Application Data 17. Engaging Users with Notifications and the Graph API 18. Introducing Cognitive Services 19. Section 5: Application Life Cycle Management
20. Azure DevOps and Visual Studio App Center 21. Application Telemetry with Application Insights 22. Automated Testing 23. Deploying Azure Modules 24. CI/CD with Azure DevOps 25. Other Books You May Enjoy

Summary

In this chapter, we have taken a look at ways to improve user engagement using push notifications and Microsoft Graph API implementations. Keeping user engagement alive is the key factor to maintaining the return rate of your application. Push notifications is an excellent tool that you can use engage your users, even when your application is not active. Azure Notification Namespaces and Hubs make this engagement a lot easier to implement by creating an abstraction layer between the PNSes and the target device runtimes. On top of the push notifications, we analyzed various APIs that are available on the Graph API through Project Rome and RESTful APIs that are readily available.

We have successfully engaged our user, so in the next chapter, we will try to surprise them with machine learning and cognitive services gimmicks to create not only a responsive and fluid application...

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