This tutorial walks you through these basic steps: If this is your first experience with Mobile Services, you should first complete Get started with Mobile Services. If you don't have an account, you can sign up for an Azure trial and get up to 10 free mobile services that you can keep using even after your trial ends. To complete this tutorial, you need a Azure account. Sync data across multiple devices and detect conflicts when the same record is modified by two devices.Allow end-users to create and modify data even when there is no network access, supporting scenarios with little or no connectivity.

Make apps resilient against intermittent network connectivity.Improve app responsiveness by caching server data locally on the device.Offline sync allows you to easily create apps that are usable even when the end user has no network access. This topic walks through the offline sync capabilities of Azure Mobile Services in the todo list quickstart app. Get started with Azure Mobile Apps, see the Azure Mobile Apps documentation center. Learn about migrating your site to Azure App Service.

Read this announcement to learn more about the pending deprecation of this service. We recommend using Azure Mobile Apps for all new mobile backend deployments. This service has been superseded by Azure App Service Mobile Apps and is scheduled for removal from Azure.

Using offline data sync in Mobile Services

Xamarin offline installer