Implementing & Accessing Backend Services using Azure Mobile Services & Xamarin

Implementing and Accessing Backend Services using Azure Mobile Services and Xamarin

Microsoft Azure comes with a very easy way to create web services for mobile apps using Javascript or C# (in beta), called Azure Mobile Services. It also come with built in APIs for Xamarin.

This presentation will show how to create a simple web service using Azure Mobile Services and how to access it for cross platform implementations, using the Xamarin API's provided.

This meetup is a joint meetup with the Chicago Azure meetup group and may be subject to change.

We are hoping to stream the presentation live via Google Hangouts On Air for those who can't attend in person and make the recording available after the event.

Food and beverages will be provided.

Planned agenda:

17.45 Networking

18.30 Presentation - Nate Burleson, 10th Magnitude

20.00 Networking

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LEGAL NOTICE: Chicago .Net Mobile Developers meetups, and joint meetups, may be videoed or recorded and made publicly available. By attending this meetup, attendees implicitly agree to be videoed and/or recorded, waive/assign any rights to that video, and to having that video/recording made public.

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Xamarin is a mono framework for iOS and Android that includes C# wrappers for native API bindings. This allows developers to develop native iOS and Android apps in C# using the mono (.Net) framework. Xamarin currently supports all features of .Net 4.5.1, and all API's in iOS7.1 and Android API level 19. iOS8 Beta APIs is suported for registered iOS developers.

Xamarin comes with its own IDE, Xamarin Studio, which supports cross platform development and common code for Android and IOS apps from a single code base. It also features a plugin for Visual Studio, which allows Visual Studio to be used as the IDE. This supports cross platform development for Android, iOS and Windows Phone, and provides full support for PCL and Shared Libraries.