Learn how to build apps with Windows Azure Mobile Services.
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Learn how to add a cloud-based backend service to an app in minutes using Windows Azure Mobile Services.
Data
Learn how you can use Mobile Services to store and retrieve data from an app.
You can use server scripts to validate and modify data when you are inserting and updating it. This tutorial show you how to define and register server scripts with mobile services and how to modify your app to take advantage of the new behaviors you define through the scripts.
This tutorial shows how you can use paging to manage the amount of data that Mobile Services returns to your app.
Users
Learn how to authenticate users in your app through a variety of identity providers, including Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Microsoft, and then leverage profile data to add features like greeting users by name.
You can use scripts to authorize particular activities for authenticated users. This tutorial demonstrates how to create and register a script that filters data query results based on a userID, to ensure that users only access data that matches their userID values.
Push
Push notifications let you deliver information to your app's users through tile, badge, and toast notifications. This topic shows you how to use Mobile Services to send push notifications to an Android app. In this tutorial you add push notifications using the Apple Push Notification service (APNS).
Services
Learn how to add email functionality to your Mobile Service using the SendGrid email service. This topic demonstrates how to add server side scripts to send email using SendGrid.
Learn how to use the Mobile Services job scheduler functionality to define server script code that is executed on a schedule that you define.
Tools
This topic shows how to use use the Windows Azure command-line tools to automate the creation and management of Windows Azure Mobile Services. It describes how to install the tools and how to perform common tasks including creating a new mobile service, creating a table, registering a script on a table operation, deleting a table, and deleting an existing mobile service.
Reference
The Mobile Services SDK for Android includes Java libraries to access mobile services from an Android application.
Learn how to perform common scenarios using the Android client library, including querying for data, inserting, updating, and deleting data, authenticating users, handling errors, and uploading data to blob storage.
This reference provides general information for working with storage service APIs, as well as specific reference information for each available operation.
Windows Azure Mobile Services enables you to define custom business logic that is run on the server. This logic is provided as a JavaScript function that is either registered to an insert, read, update, or delete operation on a given table or is assigned to a scheduled job.