Hey, it’s been a long time since the last post, but I’m back with a nice subject.
At this post we will see about Mobile Apps in Azure App Service and how we can benefit from them.
Mobile Apps in Azure App Service offers a highly scalable, globally available mobile application development platform with a rich set of capabilities to mobile developers.
Some of us as students, we have the following Azure Services are included for free with no limit:
- Mobile Apps
- Web Apps
- SQL Database
- MySQL with ClearDB
- and more…Now specifically, with Mobile Apps you can do the following:
- Build native and cross platform apps
- Connect to your enterprise systems
- Build offline-ready apps with data sync
- Push Notifications to millions in seconds
One very useful feature is the App Service Authentication / Authorization that allows users to login to our apps. It supports five identity providers out of the box: Azure Active Directory, Facebook, Google, Microsoft Account, and Twitter. The following links are the tutorials from Microsoft on how to use each of these:
- How to configure your app to use Azure Active Directory login
- How to configure your app to use Facebook login
- How to configure your app to use Google login
- How to configure your app to use Microsoft Account login
- How to configure your app to use Twitter login
Another important is the Data Access that the users will have in our app. You can use a mobile-friendly OData v3 data source linked to SQL Azure or an on-premises SQL Server and also integrate with other NoSQL and SQL data providers, including Azure Table Storage, MongoDB, DocumentDB, and other SaaS API providers.
You can also use Azure Notification Hubs to send push notifications to all your users. Find out more here: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/notification-hubs/
An offline data set that can be automatically synchronized with the backend data would be great also, so Mobile Apps comes with one, including conflict resolution support for our data. Check it out here https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/app-service-mobile/app-service-mobile-offline-data-sync
So i hope that made you to get involved with this amazing tool called Azure Mobile Apps. You can also check my other posts about some interesting stuff about tech. 😀
