1. Mobile Application Solution
Mobile Apps in Azure App Service offer a highly scalable, globally available mobile application development platform for Enterprise Developers and System Integrators
What to look for
Target this solution approach to enterprise developers needing an application platform for building, deploying and managing mobile apps of all kinds
Architecture
Solution and reference architectures

2. Azure Mobile Application Solution
Mobile Apps in Azure App Service offer a highly scalable, globally available mobile application development platform for Enterprise Developers and System Integrators
Key Benefits:
With Azure App Service, build engaging cross-platform and native apps for iOS, Android, Windows, or Mac; store app data in the cloud or on-premises
Scalable mobile-push notification engine capable of sending millions of push notifications to any devices within seconds
Configure built-in autoscale for both Mobile Apps and Notification Hubs to match your app needs. Spin up/down resources based on actual usage and pay only for what you need

3. What to look for
Target this solution approach to enterprise developers needing an application platform for building, deploying and managing mobile apps of all kinds
Developers don’t have to build mobile back ends themselves, take advantage of features like offline data sync, push notifications and user authentication to quickly make apps fully featured.
Xamarin allows for cross-platform design, leveraging existing .NET skills to multiple operating systems and mobile platforms.
Visual Studio Mobile Center brings together all the cloud and lifecycle services that help developers deliver high quality apps faster. Build, test, distribute, and monitor enterprise apps and add backend cloud services to scale the app to millions of users on-demand

4. Solution Architecture
Enterprise Developer
Enterprise developers use this solution to build, deploy and manage mobile apps of all kinds
Solution goal
Azure provides a comprehensive development platform and tools for B2C or B2B apps, allowing enterprises to share code across all target platforms and helping to lower total cost of ownership
Solution components
This solution is built on the following Azure managed services: Azure Application Service, Notification Hub, Active Directory, Visual Studio Mobile Center, DocumentDB, Xamarin Test Cloud, Application Insights. These services run in a high availability environment, patched and supported, allowing you to focus on your solution vs. the environment to run them in.

5. Reference Architecture
App Service Plan
Notification Hubs
Web App
App Service Plan
Mobile App
API App
PaaS Database Services

6. Reference Architecture
App Service
Services for building both web and mobile clients from a single app back end—it consists of Web Apps, Mobile Apps, Logic Apps, and API Apps
Notification Hub
Ability for broadcasting personalized push notifications (APNS for iOS, GCM for Android, MPNS for Windows Phone, and WNS for Windows Store)
Active Directory
Identity and access management as well as authorization to social networks
Visual Studio Mobile Center
A set of cloud services for building and managing mobile apps, including HockeyApp and Xamarin Test Cloud and Application Insights
PaaS Database Services
A database management system running in a virtual machine and includes SQL, DocumentDB, Tables, and/or HDInsights
Mobile Center
Cloud and lifecycle services for building, testing, distributing, monitoring and scaling apps

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