Building Connected iOS Apps With Mobile Services

1. Building Connected iOS Apps With Mobile Services Chris Risner Senior Technical Evangelist @chrisrisner Microsoft Azure

2. About me @chrisrisner Technical Evangelist Live in Washington Chrisrisner.com Mobile dev for 5+ years Grew up in Michigan

3. Agenda Mobile Services Microsoft Azure Advanced Features Features and Demos Questions Scaling and Pricing

4. What is Azure? Hosting and Services Massively scalable Geographically available Affordable

5. What is Mobile Services? Storage Authentication Logic Push Scheduler

6. Demo: Getting Started Your first Mobile Service

7. Structured Storage Microsoft Azure • Powered by SQL Database • Supports rich querying capabilities • Dynamic Schematization • Data management in: • Azure Portal • SQL Portal (Silverlight) • SQL Management Studio • REST API • Azure CLI Tools • SQL CLI

8. The REST API Base Endpoint: https://MobileService.azure-mobile.net/tables/* Microsoft Azure

9. JSON to SQL Type Mappings Microsoft Azure

10. Auto-generated Columns Microsoft Azure • id – unique guid • __createdAt – date • __updatedAt – date • __version – timestamp • Helps with concurrency and offline

11. Backend Logic:.NET & JavaScript

12. Server Side Table Scripts Intercept CRUD requests to tables Node.js scripts Fully customizable Passes through to SQL by default .NET backend in Visual Studio

13. Node Modules push.* request sendgrid mssql console pusher azure tables twilio

14. Demo: Customizing Logic Adding Data Validation

15. Custom API Microsoft Azure • Non-table based scripts • Accessible from • GET • POSTPUTPATCHDELETE • Expose any functionality you want

16. Push Notifications

17. Push Notification Flow Mobile Services Client Register for push notifications with APNS Send your identifier to Mobile Service Send push from server scripts APNS delivers notification to device App (2) (3) (1) APNS (4) Microsoft Azure

18. Demo: Adding Push

19. Notification Hubs Microsoft Azure • Separate from Mobile Services • Can be used regardless of whether you’re storing data in Azure • Extremely scalable push notifications • Cross platform support • Push to iOS, Android, Kindle, Windows Phone, Windows Store • Tags (i.e. tie my registration to this topic or user ID) • Templates (i.e. when I get a push, send it in this format) • Connect to using Azure module

20. Authorization&Authentication

21. Data Authorization Microsoft Azure • Per HTTP method auth options: • App Key Required • Not ideal for production use • Everyone • Authenticated Users • Admins and other scripts • Requires Master Key as header • 400 Unauthorized response if security check fails

22. User Auth Flow (server) GOOGLE CREDENTIALS (via oAuth/WebView) FACEBOOK AUTH TOKEN DEVICE GRAPH ACCESS (LIMITED) TWITTER IDENTITY MICROSOFT MOBILE SERVICE Microsoft Azure

23. User Auth Flow (client) CREDENTIALS(via native SDKs) GOOGLE AUTH CODE AUTH CODE + TOKEN FACEBOOK GRAPH ACCESS DEVICE GRAPH ACCESS TWITTER MICROSOFT IDENTITY MOBILE SERVICE Microsoft Azure

24. The User object Microsoft Azure • User.level • Admin • Authenticated • Anonymous • User.userId • Provider:id or undefined • User.getIdentities() • UserId • Provider Access Token / Secret • Basic user information (i.e. name, username, locale, picture, link)

25. Demo: Adding Auth Lock Down and Login

26. Command Line Interface

27. CLI Inspect / Delete Table Data Create / Delete Services Create / Upload / Delete Scripts Create / Update / Delete Tables and Permissions Much More Across Azure Scale Up / Down Services

28. Demo: Using the CLI

29. Scheduler

30. Scheduled Jobs Microsoft Azure Executes a script on defined schedule Can be run on demand Ideal for any backend data processing job

31. ScriptSourceControl

32. Script Source Control Microsoft Azure • Creates a Git repo in Azure • Access table, scheduler, custom API, shared scripts and permissions • Pushing changes triggers a redeploy of your Mobile Service • Enables installing NPM modules • Shared Scripts • Create scripts that can be used from all other scripts in your Service

33. DiagnosticsLoggingScale

34. Diagnostics, Logging, Scale Console Logging (auto error logging) API Calls, # of Devices, Data Out Auto-scale to Save Money Scale Service Based off API Calls Free Tier for SQL Free Tier for Mobile

35. Mobile Service Scaling  Free: 500k calls / month / subscription  Basic: 1.5M calls / unit (6) / month  Standard: 15M calls / unit (10) / month

36. Demo: Scaling Leaving Free Mode and Turning on AutoScale

37. Mobile Service Tiers service level agreements usage & licensing $ General Availability99.9% *Active devices refers to the number of physical devices and emulators that make at least one call to or receive a push notification from your mobile service. Microsoft Azure

38. What is Mobile Services? Storage Authentication Logic Push Scheduler

39. Resources Microsoft Azure • Get a FREE Microsoft Azure Trial Account: • http://azure.microsoft.com • Videos, Tutorials, and More • http://azure.microsoft.com/ios • SDK Source Code on GitHub • https://github.com/Azure/azure-mobile-services • Contact Details • http://chrisrisner.com • http://aka.ms/CommonWams • @chrisrisner

40. Thanks! Questions?

42. 16 regions worldwide in 2014 Azure footprint

43. >57% >250k Fortune 500 using Azure Greater than 1,000,000 Active websites >20 >300 • TRILLIONstorageobjects MILLION >1 AD users MILLION Developers registered with Visual Studio Online SQL Databases in Azure >2 >13 MILLIONrequests/sec BILLION authentication/wk

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