Create a Mobile Service in Azure

Azure Mobile Services is deprecated, please migrate to Azure App Service.

Tutorial requirements:

• Android Studio
• Microsoft Azure account — start a free Azure trial

1. Create a new Mobile Service in Azure.
   
   _The wizard will take you through this process in a couple of steps. Once the mobile service is created it will only take a couple of minutes to start up before its ready to use.*

2. Create Todo Table.

3. Download Todo App.

4. Extract the Eclipse project archive and Import Project in Android Studio.
   _The project may take a while to import while Gradle syncs the libraries.*

5. Build and run!

6. Add ToDo item and then browse the TodoItem Table in Azure Mobile Services.
   

Cool! You just built an Android app with a cloud backend in minutes :)

Now you can add table permissions and setup authentication using Twitter in the next tutorial.