I am trying to publish my app to Apple Store, but I do not see the Apple store option in creating a connection to store panel.
Is Apple store supported in Appcenter?
Yes, App Center does provide an option to make a connection to to App Store Connect so that your iOS applications can be submitted to the App Store or to TestFlight.
Here is the link to the App Center documentation that walks through how to set up the connection to App Store Connect: Publish to App Store Connect - Visual Studio App Center
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I have been using this MSDN tutorial (Tutorial: Send notifications to Universal Windows Platform apps using Azure Notification Hubs) to test the notification hub. The issue is it is asking me to create an app in Windows Store for which I need to register for Microsoft developer and it seems to be paid service. I'm trying to find an alternative here to get Package SID and Security Key for Windows (WNS) settings to register for an Azure Notification Hub. Please suggest.
The Windows Dev Center requires an account with a one time payment as specified on the Register to be an App Developer page.
I have created an SQL Azure DB and I want to connect a new Xamarin app that's supposed to run on Android, to it.
I am new to Xamarin an I couldn't figure out a simple way to do it from the tutorials online.
What's the simplest way to fetch data from a SQL DB in Azure, using Xamarin app?
Answer
You'll need to create an Azure API App. The Xamarin app will use this REST API to interact with the database.
Never connect a mobile app directly to a remote database using the database's connection string, because this opens up the potential for database corruption. For example, if the mobile app user has a poor internet connection, and they are connecting directly to the database, the app may not be able to finish executing a database query. An API will ensure that no database corruption happens due to a poor internet connection.
Sample Code + Walkthrough
I have a sample app and a walkthrough here that shows how to create an Azure API App, connect it to an Azure SQL Database and how to have the mobile app communicate with the REST API.
https://github.com/brminnick/XamList
Per my understanding, you could leverage the Data access and Client SDKs
features provided by Mobile Apps in Azure App Service for a simple way to achieve your purpose. You could follow the tutorials below for getting started with the Azure mobile app:
Sign in Azure portal, Create an Azure Mobile App backend
Add your data connection and link to your SQL Azure DB, for more details you could refer to Configure the server project
Download and run the Xamarin.Android app working with your SQL Azure DB
Additionally, you could refer to Adrian hall's book develop-mobile-apps-with-csharp-and-azure for a better understanding of Azure mobile apps.
I've created an Azure App Service application and pushed it to Azure. Unfortunately, I am unable to find the application key that I should use in my client to create the connection to the service (as seen in the below code ).
MobileService = new MobileServiceClient(
"http://xxxx.azurewebsites.net",
"applicationKeyShouldGoHere");
I've seen a few answers to this question, but all seem to point to authenticating the USER within the client. I want to authenticate the call to the service.
Azure Mobile Services had an application key but I'm unable to find the key for App services. The difficulty is multiplied with the fact that the Azure Portal seems to get modified every couple of months...
Thanks in advance.
The new Mobile App Services doesn't need/use any Key.
You need to use Version 2+ of the Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Mobile package on your client.
The older SDK created the MobileServiceClient like this:
new MobileServiceClient(applicationURL, applicationKey)
The new (Version 2+) like this:
new MobileServiceClient(applicationURL)
So there is no need for a key.
We don't publish Azure App Service in the way as we publish Mobile Services(Actually in new portal, there is no Application Key for Mobile services either).
When publishing Azure App Service, you need to download the publish profile from the portal. Right click the project in VS, and choose Publish.... In the Publish Web wizard,import the publish profile you downloaded. When the wizard completed, the App Service will be published to Azure.
Check web-sites-dotnet-get-started for details.
Now that I see the sample (android) application is registered for Bluemix-PUSH notifications.I have configured the Bluemix Application's info (APP ROUTE, APP UID)
I am using a Bluemix app from ----https://github.com/ibm-bluemix-mobile-services/bms-samples-android-hellopush. I have pulled this project, and built it with the proper dependency gradle settings.
But the problem is that I can not see the Push message sent from the Bluemix app on the emulator's push-registered Android App. Also I could not see an error in log files.
Are there any other ports that need to be opened on Secured bank Network in order to receive pushes from Bluemix?
I am using Android Studio 1.5.1, JDK 1.7 and Emulator - API 19 (With Google API enabled).
I built the sample application using Android API 23.0
What should we check on PUSH notifications on studio's emulator?
If there are no errors anywhere, chances are that your Google app credentials have been configured using the incorrect API key.
Ensure that you have created a Server Key and not an Android Key
We are using Azure mobile service NODE back end as a server. We are using Notification Hub to push notify our iOS and Android clients. However, we have one more requirement to develop an admin portal app in iOS.
So,We are going to develop one separate app for Admin portal.This app also has requirement to send the Push notification. Means Azure mobile service will have to send Notifications to existing iOS and android app as well as this new iOS Admin app.
My doubt is, can I send push notification to two different clients of iOS from the single Azure mobile Services Notification Hub? Because when I checked PUSH configuration on the Azure portal it shows only one .p12 file upload provision.
In my case it will be two different .p12 files i.e. one is already uploaded for existing iOS client and one I will have to upload for iOS admin app.
Can some somebody help me or guide me to the right path? I am quite new the Azure mobile services. I searched a lot regarding this topic but did not get anything related to my scenario.
Will it be possible to send PUSH to two separate iOS clients which are pointing to same Azure Mobile Service Notification Hub? Or I will have to create separate mobile service for that?
You will need a separate Notification Hub for each app. You can keep your Mobile Service using the existing Notification Hub for your main app, and create a new Notification Hub for your admin app.
Then in your Node scripts for the admin app that need to register devices or send notifications, use the 'azure' npm to connect to the admin app Notification Hub, as described in this article. The Mobile Services Node backend already includes the azure npm, so you can skip running 'npm install azure'.
var azure = require('azure');
var notificationHubService = azure.createNotificationHubService('hubname','connectionstring');