Summary
This chapter provided an overview of various network channels that can be used in Xamarin applications to create connected applications.
Web services are definitely on the essentials list for modern mobile applications because of the interoperability of the protocols in place for web services (both SOAP/XML and REST/JSON). Unfortunately, XML services are a little harder to integrate with Windows Phone 8.1 runtime (even though they are still supported by Windows Phone Silverlight runtime) because the Windows Communication Foundation client infrastructure is not included in Windows Phone runtime. However, the same RESTful service proxies can be used by applications on each Xamarin target platform and Windows Phone.
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