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Building Cross-platform Mobile Apps in C# with Xamarin and Azure

by Matt Milner

Use your C# skills to build a cross-platform mobile application and a cloud-hosted back-end. You will learn how to use Xamarin and Azure together to quickly build a rich application with login, push notifications, and a lot of code reuse.

What you'll learn

Building mobile applications for multiple platforms is challenging. Fortunately, Xamarin and Azure Mobile Apps make it much easier and you get to leverage your C# knowledge across the entire application. In this course, Building Cross-platform Mobile Apps in C# with Xamarin and Azure, you will learn how to build a fully functioning mobile application for iOS, Android, and UWP using C# and Xamarin. First, you will discover how to create a back-end for your application that hosts your data. Next, you will explore using the Azure Mobile Client SDK to build applications targeting each of the mobile platforms while leveraging as much code reuse as possible. Finally, you will learn how to add login and push notification capabilities to each of the applications. When you are finished with this course, you will have a foundational knowledge of Azure Mobile Apps and Xamarin development that will help you as you move forward to building cross-platform mobile applications.

About the author

Matt is an independent consultant with expertise in web application design and development and systems integration. As a writer, Matt has contributed to several journals and magazines such as MSDN Magazine. Matt regularly shares his love of technology by speaking at local, regional, and international conferences such as DevWeek, Prairie Dev Con, That Conference, and VS Live. As a Pluralsight Author, Matt has created more than 30 courses on the topics of web, mobile, and cloud development.

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