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Discover how to create cross platform apps for Android, iOS and UWP using Azure services and C# with Xamarin Forms. This book illustrates how to utilize Azure cloud storage for serving up Azure SQL DB data through Azure App Services.

The book starts by setting up Xamarin and introducing Xamarin Forms and then covers the Azure Portal from a developer´s perspective and goes on to demonstrate how to build an Azure Service using Quickstart. You´ll also see how to add Azure support to Xamarin Forms application. You´ll review in detail how to build a Xamarin Form with Azure Client and modify an existing app to become a Xamarin Forms Client for Azure with offline synchronization.

You then move on to third-party controls that speed up development. By the end of the book, you will be able to use Azure and Xamarin together and master how to use Azure Mobile Quickstarts, Azure SQL plumbing, database synchronization and Xamarin Forms.

What You´ll Learn

Create a Xamarin Forms App and understand the Structure of a Xamarin Forms App.

Navigate pages and use platform specific coding.

Use images, ListView and the Azure Mobile App Quickstart to build a Service and Xamarin Forms app

Modify an existing app to use Azure Client Libraries, understand offline storage with SQLite and incorporate offline synchronization

Who This Book Is For

Software developers new to Xamarin and/or Azure and for the developers who are familiar with both the technologies to use in mobile apps.

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Azure and Xamarin Forms
Chapter 1: Installing Visual Studio 2017
Goal: In this chapter, you will install the required products to complete all the exercises in this book. This includes Visual Studio, Xamarin, and third-party tools such as Syncfusion ListView and Xamarin Plug-ins.

Chapter 2: Introduction to Xamarin Forms
Goal: Create Your First Xamarin Forms application. Use StackLayout and Grid. Review of Tablet and Phone form factors. Working with Images and ListView.
Chapter 3: Introduction to Azure: a Developer´s Perspective

Goal: Overview of portal, subscriptions, billing and navigation. Creating VM and Web App, Function App, Logic App, App service plan, API App, Mobile App, and API management.
Chapter 4: Building an Azure Service Using Quickstart
Goal: Create a Mobile App in the Azure Portal, Modify the Service app, Add the question and response DTOs and endpoints. Add controllers to the Controllers Folder, Seed the data and force Entity Framework to recreate our tables. Verify the Database

Chapter 5: Building a Xamarin Forms Azure Client

Goal: Open an Existing Xamarin Forms application. Add Azure support to a Xamarin Forms application. Customize the DTOs for the Poll service. Fill in the logic to query and update our Poll records. Add support to our app for offline data caching. Synchronizing to the remote database

Chapter 6: Delete Resources in Your Subscription

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