Hi all,
Feeling abit lost here but question regarding implementing a backend server side cloud storage & user authentication for signup/login etc. etc for an Xamarin.Forms app...
I have basically developed an app in Xamarin forms which is just ready to hook up to endpoints server side for user creation and cloud storage but Im struggling to go about this the best way. Ideally i wont be running my own local web application with a SQL database, rather I could have a NOSQL database in the cloud that can scale well and let the cloud handle all authentication plus user creation etc. This way I can focus more on the app side of things.
There might be other (better) options but so far I have looked into Azure and was able to setup Azure AD B2C in which I could test run it and seemed to work although does it only support webviews? Ideally I would style up my own login/signup page that take input and send that off to some endpoint. I was also looking into cosmos db which would be ideal for data storage but how does it work with user setup and authenticate in Azure AD B2C? Does it work this way?
On the other hand firebase might be a good option Real-time Database, Storage, Notifications, Authentication, and Hosting all of which I require.
Lastly does cloud hosting remove the need for a web application that I need to deploy to the cloud? Im assuming I still need to setup some web application that I deploy to the cloud that provides and API interface for the client side and inturn the web application would talk with the cloud as a type of middle ware software?
Not necessarily looking for complete code samples but just some direction or other peoples experience around setting up server side cloud authentication data storage with a Forms application 