In this talk I will talk about mobile services provided by Azure as well as cognitive services and what we can do with them.

1. Xamarin and Microsoft Azure
Technologies for Mobile Devices

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3. COMUNIDADES AMIGAS

4. #CloudFirstCamp
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y participa por premios
al final del evento

5. Who’s this guy…?
MVP Windows Platform
Xamarin Regional Lead
luciomsp@geeks.ms
http://vicenteguzman.mx
@LucioMSP
Vicente G. Guzman Lucio
[ Master | Engineer | Bachelor’s Degree ]

6. Get Started
Xamarin.com/MSFT

7. More Platforms == More users

8. What are the best platforms to reach people?
Android: 52%
iOS: 42%
WinPhone: 3%
Blackberry: 2%
Other: 1%

9. Mobile Development
{ Yesterday } { Today }

10. Make it fast, easy, and fun to
create great mobile apps.
Xamarin’s Mission

11. Xamarin - A Complete Mobile Solution
Design Develop Integrate
Learn
Xamarin Platform
Test Monitor

12. Visual Studio Xamarin Studio

13. Xamarin.Forms Example
Use a single API to generate native, platform-
specific user interfaces
At runtime, each Xamarin.Forms page and its
controls are mapped to platform-specific
native user interface elements

14. What about the backend?

15. Plenty of Options
Azure Mobile Apps
IBM MobileFirst
Oracle Mobile Cloud

16. Azure Mobile Apps

17. What can I do?
- Store Data in the cloud
- Authenticate users
- Send notifications
All in a matter of minutes ...

18. Create a MobileService
MobileService = new MobileServiceClient (
“https://myapp.azurewebsites.net”,
“https://mygateway.azurewebsites.net”,
“mykey goes here”);

19. Create Tables
IMobileServiceSyncTable<Store> table;
public async Task Init ( )
{
const string path = “syncstore.db”;
var db = new MobileServiceSQLiteStore(path);
db.DefineTable<Store>( );
var handler = new MobileServiceSyncHandler( );
await MobileService.SyncContext.InitializeAsync( db, h);
table = MobileService.GetSyncTable<Store>( );
}

20. Let’s Build
An App

21. Mobile Quality Challenges
- Device Fragmentation
- App Complexity
- Fast Release Cycles
- Short Sessions
- High Mobile User Expectations

23. Build powerful intelligence into your applications to enable
natural and contextual interactions

24. Microsoft Cognitive Services
Set of APIs that allow applications to recognize images and videos to
provide cognitive responses.
https://microsoft.com/cognitive-services

25. Microsoft Cognitive Services
Vision Speech Language Knowlegde Search
Computer
Vision
Custom
Recognition
Bing Spell Check Academic
Knowledge
Bing Web Search
Emotion Speaker
Recognition
Linguistic Analysis
and Undestanding
Entity Linking Bing Image
Search
Face Speech Text Analytics Knoledge
Exploration
Bing Video and
News Search
Video Translator WebLM Recommenda
tions
Bing Autosuggest

26. Formerly known as Oxford Project
• Xam.Plugin.Media
• Microsoft.Bcl.Build
• Microsoft.ProjectOxford.Emotion
• Microsoft.ProjectOxford.Vision

27. Let’s View
An App

29. Xamarin Student Partners
https://blog.xamarin.com/xamarin-for-students/
Apply Today!
https://xamarin.com/student#partners

31. Unrivaled Mobile
Development
Training
Live unlimited mobile development training
from mobile experts, in your time-zone, on
your schedule, and as often as you'd like.
Free 30 Day Trial - xamarin.com/university

32. Thank you! Questions?
Vicente Guzman
Xamarin Regional Lead
MVP Windows Platform
luciomsp@geeks.ms
vicenteguzman.mx
@LucioMSP