Android

Windows Azure Mobile Services enables authentication scenarios with popular social identity providers such as Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Twitter.  In this video Chris Risner demonstrates how you can authenticate users of your Android apps using their Google account and then…

Windows Azure Mobile Services provides an easy to use API for sending notifications to your Android apps.  In this video Chris Risner demonstrates step by step how you can add Push Notifications to send alerts, toasts and sound notifications to your app.  The demo includes: …

Windows Azure Mobile Services enables you to store data from your Android apps in the cloud within minutes.  In this video Chris Risner demonstrates how you can get started with structured storage within Mobile Services.  The demo includes taking a disconnected Android app, creating a…

Jerry Nixon welcomes Niels Hilmar to the show as they discuss the Windows 8 app development opportunity that is open for anyone who has a great idea for an app. Tune in as they discuss the first-mover advantage, what free tools and resources are available as well as the upcoming App Builder Virtual…

In this episode Nick Harris and Nate Totten demonstrate how you can build cross device platform applications using Windows Azure Mobile Services.  In the demo Nick builds both an Android and a Windows Store application that consumes the same set of data from your Mobile Service. Like Cloud…

This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian discuss the week's top developer news, including; [00:20] Android Developers Welcome to Azure Mobile Services (Joel Citizen) [01:57] Azure Mobile Services managed client – now also from NuGet (Carlos Figueira) [02:39] Do you understand how your app is being…

In this video, Chris Risner announces the release of Android support for Windows Azure Mobile Services.  The SDK was built by Microsoft Open Technologies and the Mobile Services team completed portal integration and push notifications support.  To try Mobile Services for free, sign up…

Kevin Remde welcomes back  Sr. Technical Product Manager Martin Booth for Part 2 of their System Center 2012 SP1 for Windows 8 series and in today’s episode they discuss device support improvements made in Configuration Manager as well as improvements to support user mobility. [1:58] What has…

At the Build 2011 conference I teased a prototype at the very end of my talk. That prototype was called Iguazu and was an attempt at creating a push notification abstraction for Windows, Windows Phone, iOS, and Android that tackles the architecturally hardest challenges for developers…

This session talks about how to port Android apps to Windows Store apps with mapping relations between Android and Windows Store apps. We'll cover the programming architecture, UI control, application lifecycle, notification mechanism, and data storage. After this course, you'll know the difference…