Building Android Apps with Windows Azure Mobile ServicesChris RisnerTechnical EvangelistMicrosoft

http://chrisrisner.com@chrisrisner

Windows Azure Mobile ServicesDataPush NotificationsAuthSchedulerDiagnostics & Scale

Agenda

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What is Windows Azure Mobile Services?

Data

Notifications

Auth

Server Logic

Scheduler

Logging & Diag

Scale

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Getting Started a backend for your mobile app in minutes Demo

Structured StorageStructured Storage with SQL DatabaseIf using single database apps are partitioned by schema

AppX.Todoitem

AppY.Todoitem

Manage data inPortal, SQL Portal

SQL Management Studio

REST API

CLI Tools

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Server Logic

Automatic service REST API generated for storageDynamic Schema on/offAbility to author server logic that intercepts CRUD operation pipeline

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Server Logic

Supported Modules + GlobalsmssqlrequestconsolepushtablesstatusCodes

mssql.query('select top 1 * from statusupdates', { success: function(results) { console.log(results);

} }

);

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REST API to SQL type mappings

JSON Value T-SQL Type

Numeric values (integer, decimal, floating point)

Float

Boolean Bit

DateTime DateTimeOffset(3)

String Nvarchar(max)

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Server Logicadding server logic on CRUD

operations Demo

Push Notification Lifecycle Overview 1. Register with GCM

2. Register with your send reg. ID to Mobile Service

3. Push from server side scripts

Android

(1)

(2)

(3)

(3)

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Push NotificationsDemo

Auth*Authenticate against multiple providersTable level permissions for each CRUD operation

EveryoneAnyone with the Application KeyOnly Authenticated UsersOnly Scripts and Admins

More granular control with server side scriptsuser.level: {admin, authenticated, anonymous}user.userId: id or undefined if not authenticated@chrisrisn

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Adding Authenticationintegrating with Twitter Demo

SchedulerExecute scripts on a Schedule

by Minutes

by Hours

by Days

By Months

Execute scripts on DemandExamples Periodic purge of old data

Poll and aggregate from 3rd party (Twitter, RSS, others)

Process/resize images

Schedule sending push notifications for a given time of day

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Scheduling a taskDeliver a push notification Demo

Diagnostics, Logging and Scale

DiagnosticsAPI callsCPU TimeData Out

Loggingconsole.error(…)console.log(…)…

Scale - ComputeScale out instance countScale up VM size

Scale - StorageScale out mobile service tenant to dedicated SQL DBScale up SQL DB

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Diagnostics, Logging, Scale

Demo

Pricing during Preview

reserved modeservice level agreements

PreviewNo availability SLA*

General Availability99.9%

Shared Instance

Small instance is the only size available

Free - 10 applications with unlimited inbound data. Capped max of 165MB outbound data/day

Pay - SQL Database

Private VM

Small instance is the only size available

Free - unlimited inbound data. 165MB outbound data/day, excess charged.

Pay - SQL Database, Compute same reduced rate as Web Sites i.e 33% discount, excess outbound transfers starting at $0.12/GB

Up to 100 applications

shared mode

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Pricing Example:

10 x Mobile Services on shared instances

100MB SQLDatabase

Unlimited ingress

<165MB daily egress

How?10 FREE mobile services on shared instanceIncludes 165MB/day of FREE egress from API calls Cost - All services sharing a 100MB DB is $5 USD / Month Use Pricing Calculator to Estimate your costs

=$5/ Month

Note: Free Egress is per subscription, not per mobile service

Don’t forget: Member OffersMSDN Subscribers up to $3700 / yearBizSpark members up to $3700 / yearMPN Members up to $1500 / yearWebsiteSpark up to $1500 / year

Full details here - http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/pricing/member-offers/

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Summary

Data

Notifications

Auth

Server Logic

Scheduler

Logging & Diag

Scales

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Useful ResourcesGet a Windows Azure Free Trial Accounthttp://www.windowsazure.com/

Learn more & try tutorialsTutorials, Samples, Reference Docs: http://www.windowsazure.com/mobile

Help with Mobile ServicesQ&A Forum: Windows Azure Mobile Services ForumFeature Rqst: Windows Azure Mobile Services UserVoiceFeedback: mobileservices@microsoft.comTwitter: @chrisrisner and @cloudnick

Presentations, demos, hands on labsWindows Azure Training Kit: Download here

More Useful ResourcesAndroid SDK on GitHubhttps://github.com/goldshtn/wams-android

Common Mobile Services How Toshttp://aka.ms/CommonWAMS

Questions?chrisner@microsoft.com or @chrisrisner

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