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Azure Notification HubLuca Di Fino

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OverviewAzure Notification HubLet’s start

• Hub• App• Push

Something more• More notifications• More channels• More apps

Q&A

agenda

Overview

Push Notifications offer developers a way to send timely information relating to their applications even when they are not running

Push notifications are delivered through platform-specific infrastructures called Platform Notification Systems (PNS)

+Windows has the unique ability to provide the end user glanceable access to the information they care most about, via Live Tiles

Back-end

PNS

Device

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Retrieve PNS Handle

Store PNS Handle

Send Notification

Send to Device

Critical points

• Users management

• Scale• Refresh handles

• Multicast

• Platform dependency

• Routing

• Monitor and telemetry

A lot of time spent in topics unrelated to the main business logic of the app !!!

Azure Notification Hub

Azure Notification Hub

• Device token management

• Multiple platforms

• Scale

• Works with any backend• .NET, Node.JS, REST API, PHP, Java, etc.

• Efficient tag-based multicast and pub/sub routing

• Personalization

• Rich telemetry

Prices

http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/notification-hubs/

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1. Create the notification hub – Azure

2. Get app SID and Secret – Dev Center (Windows or Windows Phone)

3. Configure hub

4. Create client app – Visual Studio

5. Create app backend

Demo walk-through

Create the Notification Hub

Get app SID and Secret (Windows)

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Get app SID and Secret (Windows Phone)

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Get app SID and Secret

SID

Secret

Configure the Notification Hub

• Add Nuget package WindowsAzure.Messaging.Managed

• Set Toast capable in .appxmanifest

• Create and register Notification Channel in app.xaml.cs

Configure the app (WinRT)

string notificationHubPath = NOME_HUB;string connectionString = DefaultListenSharedAccessSignature;

hub = new NotificationHub(notificationHubPath, connectionString);var channel = await PushNotificationChannelManager.CreatePushNotificationChannelForApplicationAsync();await hub.RegisterNativeAsync(channel.Uri);

• Add Nuget package WindowsAzure.ServiceBus

• Create the hub

• Send native notifications

Configure the backend

private NotificationHubClient hub; hub = NotificationHubClient.CreateClientFromConnectionString(endpoint, hubname);

await hub.SendWindowsNativeNotificationAsync(XMLpayload); //WinRTawait hub.SendMpnsNativeNotificationAsync(XMLpayolad); //Silverlightawait hub.SendAppleNativeNotificationAsync(JSONpayload); //iOSawait hub.SendGcmNativeNotificationAsync(JSONpayload); //Android

More notifications (toast)

ToastText01 ToastImageAndText01

More notifications (tile)

TileSquareImage/TileSquare150x150Image

TileSquarePeekImageAndText02

What if we want more granular control over notifications?

If we want to push notifications only to people who are subscribed to a specific category, we use tags.

App

Backend

Combine tags with AND (&&), OR (||), NOT (!) and parentheses. Tag expressions are limited to 20 tags if they contain only ORs; otherwise they are limited to 6 tags

More channels

string[] tagsToSubscribeTo = { "phone", "news" };await hub.RegisterNativeAsync(channel.Uri, tagsToSubscribeTo);

await hub.SendWindowsNativeNotificationAsync(toast, "phone");await hub.SendWindowsNativeNotificationAsync(toast, "phone && news");await hub.SendWindowsNativeNotificationAsync(toast, "phone || news");

Be polite! Let users disable notifications.

Or they will disable you (your app) ;-)

Unregister notifications

var registration = await hub.RegisterNativeAsync(channel.Uri, tagsToSubscribeTo);

await hub.UnregisterAsync(registration);

await hub.UnregisterNativeAsync();

await hub.UnregisterAllAsync(channel.Uri);

Notification Hub

Azure

MSDN

Windows Store (WinRT) tutorial

Windows Phone (Silverlight) tutorial

Android tutorial

iOS tutorial

Kindle tutorial

Windows toast and tile template catalogs

Toast template catalog

Tile template catalog

Resources

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