In this chapter, you learned about Microsoft Azure App services and how you can use this platform to get information from a remote data source by creating your very first API within the cloud to connect to, and store and retrieve information from, all within the TrackMyWalks app. You learned how to create a live, cloud-based backend service and API using the Microsoft's Azure App services platform to store and retrieve WalkEntry information, as well as creating a DataService class that will be used to handle all the communication between the cloud and the TrackMyWalks app.

In the next chapter, you'll learn how to create a sign-in page that will allow the user to sign into the TrackMyWalks app using their Facebook credentials. You'll learn how you can take advantage of the Facebook SDK and essentially post walk data to your Facebook profile page so you can show off your progress to your friends and/or work colleagues.