Leftovers

Although we cannot cover all aspects of Mobile Services as part of this chapter, it is worth mentioning some of the additional features that make Mobile Services a compelling solution for any mobile app development:

• Identity: Mobile Services provides an easy-to-use way of authenticating against multiple identity providers. While we did not delve into the topic in this chapter, there are some great examples available at http://azure.microsoft.com, which provide step-by-step instructions on how to incorporate authentication for disparate platforms and languages. These samples can be accessed at http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/mobile-services-windows-store-dotnet-get-started-users/.
• Scheduling: Mobile Services provides a scheduler engine that can be used to schedule recurring or time-based jobs for performing background tasks. To know more about job scheduler, please visit http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/mobile-services-dotnet-backend...