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Mastering Xamarin UI Development

You're reading from   Mastering Xamarin UI Development Build robust and a maintainable cross-platform mobile UI with Xamarin and C# 7

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788995511
Length 584 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Steven F. Daniel Steven F. Daniel
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Preface 1. Setting Up Visual Studio for Mac FREE CHAPTER 2. Building a PhotoLibrary App Using Android 3. Building a SlidingTiles Game Using Xamarin.iOS 4. Creating the TrackMyWalks Native App 5. MVVM and Data Binding 6. Navigating Within the Mvvm Model 7. Adding Location-based Features Within Your App 8. Customizing the User Interface 9. Working with Animations in Xamarin.Forms 10. Working with the Razor Templating Engine 11. Incorporating Microsoft Azure App Services 12. Making Our App Social Using the Twitter API 13. Unit Testing Your Xamarin.Forms Apps 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Understanding the Microsoft Azure App services platform

In this section, we will look at the steps required to set up the TrackMyWalks application within Microsoft Azure. Nearly all mobile applications that you will develop will require the ability to communicate with an API in order to store, retrieve, update, and delete information. This API can be an existing one that someone within your organisation has already created, but sometimes you will need to create your own API for your application.

Microsoft Azure (or Azure as it's more commonly known) is essentially a cloud-based platform that was created by Microsoft back in February 2010. Azure was designed for building, deploying, and managing several applications and their associated services, such as SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS.

The following table provides a brief description of each of the Microsoft Azure-specific associated...

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