Mike James Building a cross-platform pedometer app with Xamarin & Azure MOB334

Mike James Developer Evangelist, mikecodes.net

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RedBull The London Eye

My StepCounter

Built entirely in C# Uses device sensor APIs Added Azure backend

Building the iOS App

Developing the app in half a day

Lets look at the project

Android

Supports some KitKat or above devices Uses a service 1, ,000 downloads

Lets look at the analytics

Almost 2 Years later Microsoft gets in touch

Adding Azure

Azure Mobile Service C# Facebook Social Auth

Uses Facebook to fetch: Address First Name Last Name Gender Date of Birth

Lets look at the backend

Find me on GitHub

A more exciting Azure sample

Xamarin 4.0

Whats new UI Test Recorder Rebuilt iOS Designer for Visual Studio & Xamarin Studio Xamarin Insights General availability Xamarin Inspector Objective-Sharpie CocoaPods support

Thank you. Mike James Developer Evangelist, Questions?

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