Microsoft released the ability to create custom APIs with Azure Mobile Services in June 2013 and released the JavaScript client for Azure Mobile Services (AMS) even earlier in March 2013. The JavaScript client is excellent and easy to use, but it doesn’t play well with AngularJS. Actually, that’s not true. It plays just fine with AngularJS but it requires you to use $scope.$apply() when you’re working with the data retrieved.…

It surprised me to find that uploading an image to Azure Storage using the REST API with Xamarin iOS wasn’t straightforward. After a lot of research and by combining a couple techniques, we can easily upload a UIImage to blob storage using the Azure Storage REST API. Here’s what you’ll need: Azure Mobile Services (and client library) HttpClient I’m not going over how to create a storage location and container nor an Azure Mobile Service.…