In our last post on Azure Storage [https://codemilltech.com/blobs-blobs-of-cheese-a-xamarinazure-storage-primer/] we looked at how to save large amounts of binary data to a BLOB from a Xamarin Forms app. We also took a quick look at what Azure Storage’s offering all provided, how to create a service account,…
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Blobs & Blobs of Cheese: A Xamarin/Azure Storage Primer
In our quest to explore what data services Azure offers the mobile developer and how to integrate them with a Xamarin.Forms app, so far we really just touched on familiar database storage. First looking at how to save data to the cloud [https://codemilltech.com/head-in-the-clouds-azure-mobile-services-and-data/], then finding out…
Why Can't We Be Friends? Conflict Resolution in Azure Mobile Services
The story is always the same… we develop this brand new app, introduce it to Azure [https://codemilltech.com/head-in-the-clouds-azure-mobile-services-and-data/], and they get along like gangbusters… constantly sending data back and forth. Then they have a little squabble, the lights go out and the internet is down, but Azure &…
Who Turned Off the Lights? Azure Offline Editing and Syncing
We spent the last post cloud gazing [https://codemilltech.com/head-in-the-clouds-azure-mobile-services-and-data/] and exploring the Azure Mobile Services API as it relates to creating and retrieving data from a Xamarin mobile app. But we were limited to accessing our data only when connected to the internet. What happens when the skies…
Head in the Clouds - Azure Mobile Services and Data
As we continue down the path of looking at cross platform data options, let’s reminisce of where we came from… * First we argued with a hipster about whether storing data in SQLite [https://codemilltech.com/artisanal-cross-platform-data-persistence-a-sqlite-sqlite-net-primer/] was good or not… * Then we got down and dirty with some cold…
Aka Awesome Refactored
In the last post [https://codemilltech.com/akavache-is-aka-awesome/] we talked about Akavache and frankly how awesome it is. In this post we’re going to take a simple Xamarin Forms application which uses a “home grown” caching mechanism and refactor it into one which uses Akavache. We’ll see how…