Creating a Mobile App Using Azure Services
This article takes you step-by-step through creating a mobile app using Azure.
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A scalable and secure backend that powers apps on any platform ios, Windows and Android.
Requirements
Microsoft Azure Subscription
Here are the steps followed to create a Mobile Application using Azure Mobile Services:
Step 1:
Login into to Azure Management Portal by clicking https://portal.azure.com.
Step 2:
Click New button from the Azure Management Portal as shown below.
Step 3:
From the New blade, click Web+Mobile as shown below.
Step 4:
In the Mobile+Web Wizard, click Mobile App.
Step 5:
In the Mobile App wizard, fill out the requirements such as App name, Subscription, Resource group and App service plan, and click create button.
Step 6:
It takes some time on the Azure Management portal finally app is displayed in the dashboard.
Step 7:
Open settings and scroll down and find Quick Start option and click it.
Step 8:
In the Settings blade for the new Mobile app backend, click Quick start > your client app platform Windows(C#) > Connect a database.
Step 9:
In the Add data connection blade, click SQL Database > Create a new database, type the database Name, choose a pricing tier and then click Server and New server blade, type a unique server name in the Server name field, provide a secure Server admin login and a password.
Configure the server project
Step 1
In the Mobile app backend settings, click Quick start > your client platform (Windows(C#)).
Step 2
Under create a table API, select your backend language, either C# or Node.js
Click Browse All -> Mobile Apps -> the backend that you just created. In the mobile app settings, click Quickstart > Windows (C#). Under Configure your client Application, click Download. This downloads a complete Windows project for an app pre-configured to connect to your backend and open the project using Emulator and ‘Run App' button to build the project and start the app in the emulator.
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