Azure Mobile Services -- Android BaaS

With the advent of Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS), the days of you needing to design, develop, test, and deploy your own mobile backend are gone. With BaaS, you can spin up a service which then acts as the backend for your apps. The usual set of features are data storage, authentication, and easy triggering of push notifications. Part of the presentation will go into the motivation / reasoning behind using a BaaS (the biggest of course being the time savings) as well as detail what aspects work together (Cloud BaaS + Android + GCM in this case). Then we'll cover how one option, Azure Mobile Services, helps solve these problems when building your Android applications. After the presentation you'll have a chance to try out developing with Mobile Services and maybe even win a prize!

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Chris Risner is an evangelist for Microsoft who focuses on connecting Android and iOS applications to the cloud. Prior to his current position, Chris led the mobile development efforts for a fortune 500 company after spending several years building web and client applications in Java and .NET.

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