Building Serverless Xamarin Apps with Azure

Leverage a serverless architecture to support your Xamarin mobile apps. Discover how to write a Xamarin.Forms app and retrieve data from Azure Functions.

Introduction

• Develop cross-platform serverless apps
• What you should know

1. Getting Started with Serverless

• Defining serverless
• Why serverless
• Azure Functions
• Set up your Azure account
• Outline the sample app

2. Creating Azure Functions

• Create your first Azure Functions app
• Inspect the Azure Functions app
• Choose a language
• Bindings and triggers
• Triggers
• Bindings
• Create an Azure function in Visual Studio
• Implement the Azure function

3. Creating a Xamarin.Forms App

• Introduction to Xamarin
• Create a new Xamarin.Forms app
• Create the UI
• Pick an image
• Connect with the Azure function
• Use-cases for Azure Functions in apps

4. Azure Functions Architecture

• When to choose what Azure service?
• Secure Azure Functions apps
• Test the Azure function
• Monitor Azure Functions in production
• Azure Functions app deployment

Conclusion

• Next steps