Azure Notification Hubs is a massively scalable mobile push notification engine for quickly sending millions of messages to iOS, Android, Windows, or Kindle devices. Tailor notifications to specific users-or entire audiences-with just a few lines of code, and do it across any platform

1. Azure
Notification Hub
Luca Di Fino
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2. Agenda
• Overview
• Azure Notification Hub
• Let’s start
• Hub
• App
• Push
• Something more
• More notifications
• More channels
• More apps
• Q&A
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3. • 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
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PNS
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Retrieve PNS Handle
Store PNS Handle
Send Notification
Send to Device

4. • Users management
• Platform dependency
• Scale
• Refresh handles
• Multicast
• Routing
• Monitor and
telemetry
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6. Azure
Notification Hub
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7. • 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
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9. Demo
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10. 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
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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.Messaging.Managed
• Set Toast capable in .appxmanifest
• Create and register Notification
Channel in app.xaml.cs

17. • Add Nuget package WindowsAzure.ServiceBus
• Create the hub
• Send native notifications
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private NotificationHubClient hub;
hub = NotificationHubClient.CreateClientFromConnectionString(endpoint, hubname);
await hub.SendWindowsNativeNotificationAsync(XMLpayload); //WinRT
await hub.SendMpnsNativeNotificationAsync(XMLpayolad); //Silverlight
await hub.SendAppleNativeNotificationAsync(JSONpayload); //iOS
await hub.SendGcmNativeNotificationAsync(JSONpayload); //Android

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20. • 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
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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");

21. • When in Standard tier, Notification Hubs supports a feature that
enables you to schedule notifications up to 7 days in the future
• To cancel a scheduled notification
There are no limits on the number of scheduled notifications you can send
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Notification notification = new AppleNotification("{"aps":{"alert":"Happy birthday!"}}");
var scheduled = await hub.ScheduleNotificationAsync(notification, new DateTime(2014, 7, 19, 0, 0, 0));
await hub.CancelNotificationAsync(scheduled.ScheduledNotificationId);

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

24. 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
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26. Q&A
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