Cross Platform Mobile Backend with Mobile

Services

James Quick@jamesqquick

Windows Azure Mobile Services

• Intro to Azure and the Cloud• What is Mobile Services?• Creating a Mobile Service• Authentication – choice of

providers• Push Notifications – Toast &

Tiles• Native Applications

Agenda

Azure and the Cloud

Microsoft Azure

Comprehensive set of services that enable you to quickly build, deploy and manage applications across a global network of Microsoft-managed datacenters

Solid

Open

Flexible

Azure – The Big Picture:

On Premises

Storage

Servers

Networking

O/S

Middleware

Virtualization

Data

Applications

Runtime

You

man

age

Infrastructure(as a Service)

Storage

Servers

Networking

O/S

Middleware

Virtualization

Data

Applications

Runtime

Managed by M

icrosoft

You

man

age

Platform(as a Service)

Managed by M

icrosoft

You

man

age

Storage

Servers

Networking

O/S

Middleware

Virtualization

Applications

Runtime

Data

Hosting Models

Azure Compute Choices:

Degree of Custom

ization

Speed of Development & Ease of Use

Web Sites

Cloud Services (PAAS)

Virtual Machines (IAAS)

Mobile Services

On-Premises

Compute: What are our Options?

Virtualization

O/S

Hardware

Native Code

Custom Software

Network

Data

Applications

Firewall

Web Sites

Applications

Data

Cloud Services

Native Code

Startup Tasks

Applications

Firewall Rules

Data

Virtual Network

Virtual Machines

Native Code

Custom Software

Virtual Network

Data

Applications

Firewall Rules

O/S

Mobile ServicesApplications

Data

Auth

Notifications

Azure footprint

16 regions worldwide in 2014

Data Centers

Regional Partners

Fortune 500 using Azure

>57%

>300kActive websites

More than

1,000,000

SQL Databases in Azure>30 TRILLION

storage objects

>300

MILLIONAAD users

>13BILLIONauthentication/wk

>3 MILLION

requests/sec

>1.65

MILLIONDevelopers registered with Visual Studio Online

Azure is open across the stack

Ubuntu, SUSE, OpenSUSE, CentOS & Oracle EL + hundreds on VM Depot

Dozens of .NET & PHP CMS and Web applications

Bring your own framework!

Via cross-platform and native code approaches

Ecosystem Supported

Languages

CMS

Devices

Databases

Operating systems

Microsoft 1st Party Support

Windows Azure Storage

Storage in the CloudScalable, durable, and availableAnywhere at anytime accessOnly pay for what the service uses

Exposed via RESTful Web ServicesUse from Windows Azure ComputeUse from anywhere on the internet

Azure TABLEStorage:

• Storage Account: All access to Azure Storage is done through a storage account.

• Table: A table is a collection of entities. Tables don't enforce a schema on entities, which means a single table can contain entities that have different sets of properties. The number of tables that a storage account can contain is limited only by the storage account capacity limit.

• Entity: An entity is a set of properties, similar to a database row. An entity can be up to 1MB in size.

• Properties: A property is a name-value pair. Each entity can include up to 252 properties to store data. Each entity also has 3 system properties that specify a partition key, a row key, and a timestamp. Entities with the same partition key can be queried more quickly, and inserted/updated in atomic operations. An entity's row key is its unique identifier within a partition.

Azure Mobile Services?

What is Windows Azure Mobile Services?

Data

Notifications

Auth

Server Logic

Scale

Logging

Diagnostics

Push Notifications

Data Storage

User Authentication

Node.js Express

.NET Web API

SQL Table Storage

Blob Storage

WNS & MPNS

APNS GCM

Mongo DB

Notification Hubs

Source Control

Facebook Twitter Microsoft Google Azure Active Directory

Windows Store iOSAndroid XamarinPhonegap

Windows PhoneiOSAndroidHTML 5/JS

SDKs

REST

API

Hybrid Connections

Key ScenariosWindows Azure Mobile Services are ideal for:

Modern mobile appsWindows Store Apps, Windows Phone, Windows 10, iOS, Android

Common ScenariosReduces the friction associated with repeating common tasks such as user authentication, push notifications and structured storage

Rapid DevelopmentTime is money. Get your app up and running sooner when you use Mobile Services to configure a straightforward and secure backend in less than five minutes.

Create Azure Mobile Service

Getting Starteda backend for your mobile app in minutesDemo

Where Do We Store Stuff?

How Do We Add Stuff?

Server-Side Logic

• Automatic service REST API generated for storage• Dynamic Schema on/off (DBA’s worst nightmare )• Ability to author Server-Side Logic that intercepts CRUD

operation pipeline• Rich querying capability• JavaScript syntax (Node.js)

Windows Azure Web Sites powerful web sites in seconds

start simplestart free, scale up and out as you go, friction-free and without the headaches

code smartwith classic asp, asp.net, php or node.js, develop on Windows, OSX or Linux

go livedeploy live in seconds, easily monitor performance, rapidly diagnose and fix issues

Supported Publishing Methods

FTP:// TFS WEBDEPLOY

DROPBOX

Native Apps??

Server Logicadding server logic on CRUD operations

*Authentication*

Authenticate against Windows Live, FB, Twitter, GoogleTable level permissions for each CRUD operation:• Everyone• Anyone with the Application Key• Only Authenticated Users• Only Scripts and Admins

Authentication Providers:

Identity Provider: App Login Options: • Windows Live - “microsoftaccount”• Facebook - “facebook”• Twitter - “twitter”• Google - “google”

Push NotificationsDemo

Push Notification Lifecycle Overview1. Request Channel URI

2. Register with your Cloud Service

3. Authenticate & Push Notification

Windows 8

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(2)

(3)

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Push Notifications

• Integrates with WNS to provide Toast, Live Tile, and Badge notifications.

• Portal captures your WNS client secret and package SID.

• push.wns.* provides: • Clean easy object model to compose

notifications• Performs authentication against WNS for you

Connect Our Users

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Summary

Data

Notifications

Auth

Server Logic

Scale

Logging

Diagnostics

start now.http://WindowsAzure.com

Resources:

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Mobile Serviceshttp://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/mobile-services/

Mobile Services Documentation | Azurehttp://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/services/mobile-services/

Azure Mobile Services Team Blog - Site Home - MSDN Blogshttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/azuremobile/

Get started with Mobile Serviceshttp://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/mobile-services-windows-phone-get-started/

Azure Readiness / DevCamphttps://github.com/Azure-Readiness/DevCamp