arrebagrove/contosomoments

Contoso Moments is a sample to demonstrate the advantages of using Azure App Service for building Modern Applications

services	platforms	author
app-service\mobile, app-service\web, app-service	dotnet, xamarin	lindydonna, syntaxc4

Contoso Moments

What is Contoso Moments?

Contoso Moments is a photo sharing application that demonstrates the following features of Azure App Service:

• App Service authentication/authorization
• Continuous Integration and deployment
• Mobile app server SDK
• Mobile offline sync client SDK
• Mobile file sync SDK
• Mobile push notifications

How To: Configure your Development Environment

Download and install the following tools to build and/or develop this application locally.

1. Visual Studio 2015 Community
2. Xamarin Platform for Visual Studio

How To: Deploy the Demo

1. Check to ensure that the bulid is passing

2. Fork this repository to your GitHub account

3. Click on the Deploy to Azure Button

   

4. Fill out the values in the Deployment page

5. If deploying from the main repo, use true for ManualIntegration, otherwise use false. This parameter controls whether or not a webhook is created when you deploy. If you don't have permissions to the repo and it tries to create a webhook (i.e., ManualIntegration is false, then deployment will fail).

6. When the deployment steps complete, it will provide a link to the Web App

Download the iOS client app

The iOS client app is available on the Apple App Store. You can have it connect to your own service by setting the URL in the app's settings page.

How: Customize the service

Authentication

The web and mobile client support Facebook and Azure Active Directory Authentication. Follow these tutorials:

• How to configure your App Service application to use Facebook login
• How to configure your App Service application to use Azure Active Directory login

Note: Ensure that the Action to take when request is not authenticated is set to Allow request (no action)

The mobile app uses client-directed login for Facebook, which provides a better user experience on a mobile device. This requires that you set your Facebook App ID in the following locations:

• (iOS) The FacebookAppID key in Info.plist.
• (iOS) The value for CFBundleURLSchemes in Info.plist. This string should have "fb" followed by your app ID.
• (Android) The value for facebook_app_id in strings.xml.
• (Android) The value for fb_login_protocol_scheme in strings.xml. This string should have "fb" followed by your app ID.

To learn more, see:

• Facebook Login for iOS
• Facebook Login for Android

Other customizations

Our hosted version of the service restricts uploads to the public album to users who are logged in with Azure Active Directory, by setting Image.IsVisible = false for other users. On the web client, anyone can upload images to the public album, but the image will be marked as not visible and cannot be viewed unless it is changed in the database. On the mobile client, if you're using the default service url (https://contosomoments.azurewebsites.net), the image upload icon is hidden for the public album unless you're logged in with AAD.

The provided ARM template opts out of this behavior by using false for the app setting PublicAlbumRequiresAuth.

How To: Run the Mobile Client Apps

In Visual Studio or Xamarin Studio, open the project src/ContosoMoments-Mobile.sln.

Platform	Build Status
Android
iOS