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• Slow or laggy experience • Crashes • Not intuitive & bad user experience • Features not as advertised • Data not available when you need it
Bad App Experiences
• On average, 54—62% of costs are associated with infrastructure
• Hosting solutions • System Administrator • DB Administrator • Backup • Scaling • Continuous Deployment
Reducing Mobile App Development Costs
Plenty of Options
Amazon Web Services
Azure Mobile Apps IBM MobileFirst
Oracle Mobile Cloud
Firebase Couchbase
Realm
Parse
• Flexible • Easy Apis/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
• Node.js for backend! • Continuous deployment / integration
Why Azure?
Shared C# codebase • 100% native API access • High performance
iOS C# UI
Windows C# UIAndroid C# UI
Shared C# Mobile
C# Server
Linux/Mono CoreCLRAzure
Shared C# Client/Server
Xamarin Apps + Backend Services
Shared C# codebase • 100% native API access • High performance
iOS C# UI
Windows C# UIAndroid C# UI
Shared C# Mobile
C# Server
Linux/Mono CoreCLRAzure
Shared C# Client/Server
Mobile + Server
• Node.js • Easy authorization (CRUD based on REST
actions) • Online Editor! • Integrated on Client SDKs
Easy APIs
• Great for simple data storage • Visual Editor to create tables or create tables
based on the app’s model!! • CRUD • Support Authorization/Authentication • Trigger events on CRUD
(ex. Send a push when an item is added to a table)
Easy Tables
• Allow end-users to create and modify data even when there is no network access
• Sync works across multiple devices • SQLite Database • Client SDK available for Xamarin, alternatively use REST API • Backend written in Node.js
Offline Sync
• 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
• Sync files to Azure Storage, just like you did for structured data.
File Sync