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Mastering Xamarin.Forms

You're reading from   Mastering Xamarin.Forms Build rich, maintainable multiplatform native mobile apps with Xamarin.Forms

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2016
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ISBN-13 9781785287190
Length 184 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Creating an API with Microsoft Azure App Services

Almost all mobile apps communicate with an API to retrieve and store information. In many cases, as a mobile app developer, you might just have to simply consume an API that already exists. However, if you're building your own service, as opposed to consuming someone else's, you will need to create your own API. There are several ways you can create an API, several places you can host it, and certainly many different languages you can develop it in. For the purposes of this book, we are going to create an API in the cloud using Microsoft Azure App Services. Azure App Services contains many products and features, one of which is called Mobile Apps (formally known as Azure Mobile Services).

Azure Mobile Apps provide a very quick and easy way to get a fully functional backend service up and running in a matter of minutes. You can create the backend service using either Node.js or .NET. Because the primary focus of this book is developing...

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