Chapter 8. Web Services with Push Notifications
Modern mobile applications are defined by their network connectivity. A mobile app that does not interact with a web server is both a rare find and not as interactive or social as it would otherwise be. In this module, we'll use the Windows Azure cloud platform to implement a server-side backend for our XamChat application. We'll use a feature called Azure Mobile Services, which is an excellent fit for our application and has the benefit of built-in push notifications. Once we are done with this chapter, our XamChat sample application will be much closer to being a real application and will allow its users to interact with one another.
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- The services ...
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