This document provides an overview and demonstration of Azure Notification Hub. It discusses how Notification Hub can be used to send push notifications to multiple platforms from any backend system. It also covers how to create a notification hub in Azure, configure an app to use the hub, and send notifications. Key features highlighted include token management, scaling, tag-based routing, and support for platforms like Windows, iOS, and Android. The presentation concludes with questions and answers.

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3. Overview
Azure Notification Hub
Let’s start
• Hub
• App
• Push
Something more
• More notifications
• More channels
• More apps
Q&A
agenda

4. 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

5. Critical points
• Users management
• Scale
• Refresh handles
• Multicast
• Platform dependency
• Routing
• Monitor and telemetry

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

7. Azure
Notification Hub

8. 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

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

10. demo
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11. 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

12. Create the Notification Hub

13. Get app SID and Secret (Windows)
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14. Get app SID and Secret (Windows Phone)
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15. Get app SID and Secret
SID
Secret

16. Configure the Notification Hub

17. • 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);

18. • 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); //WinRT
await hub.SendMpnsNativeNotificationAsync(XMLpayolad); //Silverlight
await hub.SendAppleNativeNotificationAsync(JSONpayload); //iOS
await hub.SendGcmNativeNotificationAsync(JSONpayload); //Android

19. More notifications (toast)
ToastText01 ToastImageAndText01

20. More notifications (tile)
TileSquareImage/TileSquare150x150Image
TileSquarePeekImageAndText02

21. 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");

22. Be polite! Let users disable notifications.
Or they will disable you (your app)
;-)

23. Unregister notifications
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
Resources

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