Microsoft has released Windows azure mobile services, which can easily store structured data, integrate with user account verification, and push notifications. Through this service platform, developers can provide their own Windows 8 applicationsProgramAdd cloud service backend: it is easier to store data on a cloud computing server, verify users, and send push notifications to clients. Like other cloud computing backend service solutions, the Windows azure mobile services platform enables developers to focus more on front-end R & D and accelerate product integration into the market. A getting started tutorial is provided to familiarize you with the mobile service within five minutes.
Windows azure mobile services is composed of a group of rest APIs. Although Microsoft only provides Windows 8 sdks, it is easy to develop other iOS and Android sdks. Someone (Chris Risner :-) put a simple IOS client. In fact, there is already an example of the monotouch to-do list, tasky, using Apple's iCloud storage. Some also use tasky'sCodeI wrote a taskyazure code using the Windows azure mobile services.
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