Get Started With iOS App Using Azure Mobile Services

Kuppurasu Nagaraj
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Prerequisites

XCode
Azure Account

Now let's get started with the following steps:

Create a new Azure mobile app backend

Step 1: Sign in to the online Microsoft Azure Portal.

Step 2: In the Jumpbar, click New, then click Web + Mobile, and then Mobile App.

Step 3:

In the Mobile App account blade, specify the desired configuration for the Mobile App account (Name, & Resource Group). Click Create button at the bottom of the screen to create the Mobile App.

Step 4: In the Settings blade for the new Mobile App backend, click Quick start, then your client app platform (iOS - Objective C) and Connect a database.

Step 5:

In the Add data connection blade, click SQL Database, then Create a new database, type the database Name, choose a pricing tier and then click Server and New server blade. Type a unique server name in the Server name field, provide a secure Server admin login and password.

Configure the server project

Step 1: Back in the Mobile App backend settings, click Quick start > your client platform (iOS - Objective C).

Step 2: Under Create a table API, select your Backend language, either C# or Node.js.

Download and run the Windows app

Click Browse All, Mobile Apps, then the backend that you just created. In the mobile app settings, click Quick start, then (iOS - Objective C). Under Configure your client application, click Download.

This downloads a complete iOS project for an app pre-configured to connect to your backend and open the project using XCode Tools and ‘Run App' button to build the project and start the app in the iPhone emulator.