In our last post on Azure Storage 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, and then how to…
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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, then finding out what to do when…
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, 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 & the app survive with…
Who Turned Off the Lights? Azure Offline Editing and Syncing
We spent the last post cloud gazing 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 turn dark, a storm…
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 was good or not… Then we got down and dirty with some cold hard data caching… Finally…
Aka Awesome Refactored
In the last post 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 much simpler and more…