developing mobile apps with windows azure mobile services

Developing Mobile Apps

with Windows Azure Mobile Services

Pongsakorn PoosankamMicrosoft Innovation Center – ManagerMicrosoft (Thailand) Limited

Kind of Mobile Apps Offline Online Hybrid

Me Thai Radio Live AIS Book Store

Be hide the scene

Windows Azure

1+ Terabytes of Data2+ million subscribers5,000+ registers/day90% Thai e-Publishingreduced IT costs by 30%

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ScalableHigh AvailabilitySave CostSelf ServiceFlexible

What is Windows Azure Mobile Services?

Data

Notifications

Auth

Server Logic

Scale

Logging

Diagnostics

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8396

Getting Starteda backend for your mobile app in

minutes Demo

Structured StorageStructured Storage with SQL DatabaseIf using single database apps are partitioned by schema

AppX.TodoitemAppY.Todoitem

Manage data inPortalSQL PortalSQL Management StudioREST API…

Server LogicAutomatic service REST API generated for storageDynamic Schema on/offAbility to author server logic that intercepts CRUD operation pipelineRich querying capability

REST API to SQL type mappingsJSON Value T-SQL TypeNumeric values (integer, decimal, floating point)

Float(53)

Boolean BitDateTime DateTimeOffset(3)String Nvarchar(max)

Server Logicadding server logic on CRUD

operations Demo

Push Notification Lifecycle Overview 1. Request Channel URI

2. Register with your Cloud Service

3. Authenticate & Push Notification

Windows 8

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Push NotificationsIntegrates with WNS to provide Toast, Tile, Badge and Raw notificationsPortal captures your WNS client secret and package SIDpush.wns.* provides:

clean easy object model to compose notifications

Performs auth against WNS for you

Push NotificationsDemo

Auth*Authenticate against Windows LiveTable level permissions for each CRUD operation

EveryoneAnyone with the Application KeyOnly Authenticated UsersOnly Scripts and Admins

More granular control with server side scripts

Adding Authenticationhooking up Windows Live in minutesDemo

Diagnostics, Logging and ScaleDiagnosticsAPI callsCPU TimeData Out

Loggingconsole.error(…)console.log(…)

Scale - ComputeScale out instance countScale up VM size

Scale - StorageScale out mobile service tenant to dedicated SQL DBScale up SQL DB

Diagnostics, Logging, Scale

Demo

Free Offer at Launch

Running on shared instances

10 Mobile Services 1GB SQL

Database

Must be deployed to US-East DC

Data transfer is per subscription, not per mobile service

No SLA during Preview. Only small instances available. Can upgrade to a reserved instance at 33% discount from normal Pay-As-You-Go rates during Preview.

From W

A Free TrialUnlimited ingress

165MB daily egress

Summary

Data

Notifications

Auth

Server Logic

Scale

Logging

Diagnostics

Available Preview• Windows 8

Coming soon• Windows Phone• iPhone• Android

Start $5 per month• 100 MB MSSQL• Share compute

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