Mobile architecture design
The Azure platform can help you quickly build Android, iOS, and Windows apps that fit your business needs. You can also use Azure to power your apps with intelligent back-end services and automate your development lifecycle to ship faster and with more confidence.
These are just some of the services that Azure provides to help you with mobile development and back-end infrastructure:
Azure App Service. Build and host mobile back ends and RESTful APIs in the programming language of your choice without managing infrastructure. Use Mobile Apps, a feature of App Service, to create mobile apps for any device.
.NET MAUI. Build mobile applications using a .NET cross-platform UI toolkit that targets the mobile and desktop form factors on Android, iOS, macOS, Windows, and Tizen.
Azure Communication Services. Use a set of rich communication APIs, video APIs, and SMS APIs to deploy your applications across any device, on any platform.
Azure Notification Hubs. Use this massively scalable mobile push notification engine to send notifications to iOS, Android, Windows, or Kindle devices.
Azure Maps. Easily incorporate location-based data into mobile solutions.
Azure Cognitive Services. Add cognitive capabilities to apps by using APIs and AI services.
Path to production
Azure provides various options for development platforms and back-end services.
To learn about single-platform, cross-platform, and hybrid development frameworks, see Choose a mobile development framework.
For information about source-code management, see Cloud-hosted mobile application source-code management.
To start exploring options for other back-end services, see these articles:
- Build mobile back-end components with compute services
- Add authentication and manage user identities in your mobile apps
Best practices
Automate your development lifecycle to ship faster and with more confidence. See these articles for information about continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD):
- Automate the lifecycle of your apps with continuous build and integration
- Automate the deployment and release of your mobile applications with continuous delivery services
Architectures for mobile apps
The following sections provide links to reference architectures in some key categories.
Storage
- Store, sync, and query mobile application data from the cloud
- Cloud storage for highly secure, durable, scalable apps with Azure Storage
Scalability
- Scalable web and mobile applications using Azure Database for MySQL
- Scalable web and mobile applications using Azure Database for PostgreSQL
Stay current with mobile development on Azure
Get the latest updates on Azure mobile development services and features.
Additional resources
Example solutions
Following are a few more architectures to consider: