There are two options for moving from Mobile Services to App Service: migration or upgrade. Either option will give you access to all of the hosting capabilities of App Service:
- Migrating a service just changes the underlying environment that hosts your mobile backend. It requires no code changes to either the mobile client or the mobile server project. If you use the automated migration option, this preserves your service.azure-mobile.net URL.
- Upgrading a service does require code changes to both your server and client project, but allows you to take advantage of new mobile SDK features, such as improvements to authentication and more flexibility for your server project.