Guy BarretteFreelance Architect/DeveloperAzure MVP, Microsoft Regional Directors Program@GuyBarretteguy.cloud

Connected & Disconnected Apps with Azure Mobile Apps

Quick introduction overview ofAzure Mobile App

• Common mobile challenges• Azure overview• Why Azure Mobile App?• Demo• Offline/Sync• Push notifications• Get started!

Agenda

Common Mobile Challenges

Backend Data

Offline/Sync

Sign-on Notifications

Scaling

What about a backend?

Plenty of Options

Amazon Web Services

Azure Mobile Apps IBM MobileFirst

Oracle Mobile Cloud

SQLCIipher

Couchbase Realm

SQLite-net

Azure

INFRASTRUCTURE SERVICES

Media & CDN

Content DeliveryNetwork (CDN)

MediaServices

Analytics & IoT

HDInsight MachineLearning

StreamAnalytics

DataFactory

EventHubs

MobileEngagement

Integration

BiztalkServices

HybridConnections

ServiceBus

StorageQueues

Backup

StorSimple

SiteRecovery

Import/Export

Data

SQLDatabase

DocumentDB

RedisCache Search

Tables

SQL DataWarehouse

Azure AD Connect Health

StorageBLOB Storage

Azure Files

Premium Storage

AD PrivilegedIdentity Mngt

OperationalInsights

Compute

CloudServices

Batch Remote App

ServiceFabric

Developer Services

Visual Studio

ApplicationInsights

Azure SDK

Team Project

ComputeWindows Linux Containers

ActiveDirectory

Multi-FactorAuthentication

Automation

Portal

Key Vault

Store /Marketplace

VM Image Gallery& VM Depot

NetworkingVirtual Network

ExpressRoute

Traffic Manager

Load Balancer

DNS VPN Gateway

Application Gateway

SECURITY & MANAGEMENT PLATFORM SERVICES HYBRID

OPERATIONS

App Platform

Web Apps

MobileApps

APIManagementAPI

Apps

LogicApps

NotificationHubs

API APPSEasily build and

consume APIs in the cloud

WEB APPSWeb apps that scale with

your business

LOGIC APPSAutomate business

process across SaaS and on-premises

MOBILE APPSBuild Mobile apps for

any device

Azure App Service

Web Apps

Logic Apps

Mobile Apps

API Apps

http SQL

Customer site

Administration App

Order Completed

Customer App

REST

API

Offline sync Push Notifications

Data connections

User Authentication

Facebook

Twitter Microsoft Google

Azure Active

Directory

Azure Mobile Apps

WindowsAndroid

Chrome

iOS OSX

In-AppKindle

Xamarin, iOS, Android & Windows SDKs

Backend code

SQL MongoTables O365 API Apps

Offline Sync

• Flexible• Easy Tables• App Service

• C# SDKs available everywhere:• C#- iOS, Android, & Windows with Xamarin• C# clients, written by C# developers (open source)• C# backend with ASP.NET

• Scalable

Why Azure Mobile App?

Shared C# codebase • 100% native API access • High performance

iOS C# UI

Windows C# UIAndroid C# UI

Shared C# Mobile

C# Server

Shared C# Client/Server

Xamarin Apps + Mobile App C# Backend

C#

Shared C# codebase • 100% native API access • High performance

iOS C# UI

Windows C# UIAndroid C# UI

Shared C# Mobile

Node.JS Server

Shared C# Client/Server

Xamarin Apps + Mobile App Node.JS Backend

JavaScript

Easy

Shared C# codebase • 100% native API access • High performance

iOS C# UI

Windows C# UIAndroid C# UI

Shared C# Mobile

?

?

Shared C# Client/Server

Xamarin Apps + Whatever Backend

?

DemoLet’s add a backend

Always connected?

http://opensignal.com/coverage-maps

• Access data from Mobile Apps tables even when app is offline

• Keep a local queue of Create, Update, Delete operations and synchronize with server when app is back online

• Detect conflicts when same item is changed both locally and on server

• Use soft delete to remove deleted records from client data stores

Offline Sync - How it works

• Rolling your own account infrastructure is difficult and time-consuming

• Secure your app with prebuilt authentication providers• Facebook• Twitter• Google• Microsoft• Azure AD• Anything OAuth 2

Authentication

• Easy-to-use, multiplatform scaled push infrastructure that allows you to send push notifications almost anywhere.

Push Notifications

Get started!• https://tryappservice.azure.com/• Create a free Mobile App that will live for an hour• No account, no CC required

• Azure free trial• $200 credit to use in the first month

• Visual Studio Dev Essentials• Azure credit ($25/month for 12 months)

• MSDN account?• Azure credit, up to $150/month

• BizSpark• Azure credit, up to $750/month

Questions?