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My purpose is to build my mobile app backend serverless. Now, when I try to create MobileServiceClient instance, it asks for an Azure Mobile App URI, can this URI be an Function App URI or it has to be only Mobile App?

Ray
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You should be able to handle the mobile apps server logic with functions, though you'll be rolling all of this on your own.

One possibility: deploy a mobile app which uses the Azure Mobile Apps sdk at the root of your function app (they're both built on top of Web Apps). Then, use proxies / functions to handle any custom api calls from the mobile client so that you can convert over at your own pace.

Matt Mason
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  • Thanks for this answer. – Ray May 29 '17 at 23:20
  • Thanks for this answer. But i want to do it without deploying an mobile app. I want to have my functions to work just like rest api calls secured by custom authorization using Azure AD B2C tenant authentication. I thought I should have the flexibility without deploying an mobile app service plan which will cost extra money. Instead, i wanted to have some functions which can be reused later as well. – Ray May 29 '17 at 23:27
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    You should be able to do it with all functions - it's just rolling everything yourself that the mobile app backend does, which is significant. See the github link I posted - you basically need to recreate the express app in the mobile apps sdk. – Matt Mason May 30 '17 at 23:15
  • Okay. That's actually good to know. Yes, you are right, I'm with you on that one. Thanks! I am yet to try using function app url though, I will keep you posted how it goes. – Ray Jun 01 '17 at 00:58