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Role of Web Based Technologies In Maximizing Code Sharing In Your Applications

April 19, 2018 Apr 19, 2018 04/19/18
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In this post, Premier Developer Consultant Wael Kdouh shares ideas of the alternatives to reduce web complexity and increase code sharing. He does a side-by-side comparison of Cordova/Iconic, NativeScript, and React Native to help you explore some of your options to reduce complexity. I was recently approached by a colleague of mine ...

Client Directed Authentication with Azure Mobile Apps

March 14, 2018 Mar 14, 2018 03/14/18
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App Dev Manager Nicholas McCollum walks through creating an Azure Mobile App that uses client directed authentication via Azure AD. Azure Mobile Apps are built on Azure App Services. Through the Azure portal you can configure your Azure Mobile App to provide sign in, push notifications, and data synchronization. When you configure sign ...

Visual Studio App Center

January 5, 2018 Jan 5, 2018 01/5/18
Pam Lahoud
This overview of Visual Studio App Center comes to us from Premier Developer consultant Sana Noorani. One of Microsoft’s newest offerings, the Visual Studio App Center, is a tool for streamlining the DevOps pipeline for mobile development. The product is an updated version of its previous product, Mobile Center, and has many more features...

Building cross-platform Xamarin.Forms apps in VSTS

August 23, 2016 Aug 23, 2016 08/23/16
Monu Bambroo
In a recent post from his blog, Premier Developer Consultant Jim Blizzard shows how to navigate past some of the issues when setting up VSTS builds for a multi-project Xamarin.Forms solution. The other day I wanted to create a DevOps CI / CD pipeline for a simple Xamarin.Forms app that I’d created. The Visual Studio solution contains ...

Maximize code on the Mobile Platform of your choice

April 22, 2016 Apr 22, 2016 04/22/16
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In this blog post, Application Development Managers, Derrick Sharpe and Justin Wendlandt, highlight the many options to maximize development productivity across a range of mobile platforms, including Windows 10, Windows Phone, iOS, Android, and more. Contrary to popular belief, the Windows Phone application development landscape is not dead...

Leveraging Native UI in Apache Cordova Apps Using Project Ace

February 18, 2016 Feb 18, 2016 02/18/16
Pam Lahoud
This article comes to us from Premier Developer consultant Wael Kdouh. When it comes to Cross Platform Mobile Development there are two options that stand out today. The first option is Xamarin which allows users to use C# and XAML to develop once and deploy everywhere natively. The second option is Apache Cordova which allows users to use ...

How to choose the Mobile Strategy that best suits your company

March 24, 2015 Mar 24, 2015 03/24/15
Pam Lahoud
A lot of companies that are trying to adapt to the proliferation of mobile devices targeting different platforms have the following question on their mind today: What is the Mobile Strategy that best suits my company?  This post by Premier Developer Consultant Wael Kdouh outlines some of the things to consider when choosing the strategy that ...

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