Slide Deck from our presentation at the Azure Dublin Meetup about Xamarin in November 2016

1. Xamarin & Azure Notification Hubs
Eoin Campbell
CTO, Greenfinch Technology

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Easy-to-use, multi-platform, scaled-out push infrastructure
Send cross-platform push notifications via specific platform
notification services (PNS)
Azure Notification Hubs

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Azure Notification Hubs
 Support for a variety of PNS
 Windows Notification Service
 Microsoft Push Notification Service
 Apple Push Notification Service
 Firebase Cloud Messaging
 Google Cloud Messaging
 Baidu Cloud Push
 Amazon Device Messaging
 Targeting a variety of Devices
 Windows Phones, Tablets & PCs running
Windows 8 or 10
 Apple Devices running iOS or MacOSX
 Chrome Apps
 Android Phones & Tablets
 Amazon Kindles

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Push Notifications to Xamarin Apps
Android
IPhone
Notification
Hubs
GCM
Windows PhoneWNS
APNS
Your Application

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Getting Setup
 Azure Notification Hub – Azure Portal
 Google Cloud Messaging / Firebase Setup
 Project/Sender ID & Application Name
 API Key
 Apple Push Notification Service
 Apple Developer Site
 Requires CSR/Certification Creation & Installation of Certs in your build pipeline

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Demo Time
On the first of December Azure & Xamarin sent to me, via
 4 cloud platforms
 3 operating systems
 2 types of network
 To a pub in the middle of the city…
(I won’t lie, that rhyme took an inordinate amount of time to get the cadence right)

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All the other things
 Registrations & Tagging
 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/notification-hubs/notification-hubs-ios-aspnet-register-user-from-backend-to-push-notification
 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/notification-hubs/notification-hubs-tags-segment-push-message
 Rich Push Notifications
 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/notification-hubs/notification-hubs-tags-segment-push-message
 Geo-fenced notifications using Bing Spatial Data
 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/notification-hubs/notification-hubs-push-bing-spartial-data-geofencing-notification
 Enterprise Architecture using Service Bus Topics & Subscriptions
 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/notification-hubs/notification-hubs-enterprise-push-notification-architecture

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Q & A
www.greenfinch.ie