I'm using appcenter to build and distribute to my testers my app.
what is the number of maximum invites I can send for iOS and android?
Is this like iOS internal testers = 25 and external testers = 1000? what is appcenter using to distribute the apps?
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I am building a .NET MAUI app with Blazor for iOS initially (and targeting Android soon).
I want to enable and integrate external push notifications, that can be sent from our backend, hosted in Microsoft Azure.
(I am new to apps & notifications, so bear with me)
I believe Azure Notifications Hub would be the right service to use for this, but it seems -at first sight- that not many things have been moving there and I don't seem to find any details on how to integrate that with .NET MAUI applications.
What would be the recommended approach to set this up at the moment?
(SignalR would only work when the app is active, and here I want to use the platform notifications).
Thanks for any insights.
Does Azure has the capability to setup a device farm like AWS Device Farm to test Android, iOS, and web apps on a massive collection of real mobile devices.
Azure does not provide testing services for mobile apps. There are 7 best device farms to test your iOS and Android applications.
You may use Visual Studio App Center Test (formerly Xamarin Test Cloud), it supports some frameworks and language, you may find yours within it https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/appcenter/test-cloud/
I have an Azure Notification Hub (ANH) configured with a Google Firebase Cloud Messaging application. Our application back end will need to also push notifications to a second Google Firebase Cloud Messaging application. That is the 2 Android applications will have different API Key values. Later we will wish to do the same for iOS -- push notifications to 2 separate iOS applications from our 1 back-end.
Will the Standard tier allow us to use these 4 applications from one Notification Hub? How does the Multi-Tenancy feature map into this scenario?
The hub concept is built around apps. This means one hub maps to one app no matter the circumstance. The one app can be cross-platform, so you can have an iOS version of the app, an Android version, etc. Each hub is designed to have one certificate enabled for each platform (because each app install on a device has a different token for push), so you will not be able to use one hub for two Android applications.
In the Android case, you'd want to have one hub per Android app. Then your backend can work with both hubs depending on the scenario. For iOS apps, if they are the same apps but in different platforms as the Android ones, you can do one hub for app 1 for both iOS and Android; then one hub for app 2 for both iOS and Android.
The multi-tenancy feature is for people whose apps are so large they span across multiple hubs. The feature allows customers configure certificates for a whole collection of hubs (which we call a namespace).
Azure notifications hub supports pushing notifications to various notification services (android, ios, windows phone etc). Is it possible to define a custom notification service to push notifications to?
Azure Notification Hubs - Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs):
Which device platforms do you support?
We support sending notifications to Apple iOS, Android, Windows
Universal and Windows Phone, Kindle, Android China (via Baidu),
Xamarin (iOS & Android), Chrome Apps platforms.
Do you support SMS/Email/web notifications?
Notification Hubs is primarily designed to send notifications to
mobile apps using the above listed platforms. We do not provide
capability to send email or SMS however third party platforms which
provide these capabilities can be integrated along with Notification
Hubs to send native push notifications by using Azure Mobile Services.
E.g. this tutorial talks about how to send SMS notifications using
Azure Mobile services - Send SMS with Mobile Services.We also do not
provide an in-browser push notification out of the box. Customers may
choose to implement this using SignalR. We also provide a tutorial for
sending push notification to Chrome apps which will work on Google
Chrome browser. See this - Chrome Apps tutorial.
Is it possible to configure and use push notifications in SharePoint 2013 apps for iPhone Xamarin.
Recently I started creating a Xamarin application that supports both Android and IPhone application. So my doubt here is, Is it possible to create a solution in SharePoint Server for sending push notifications and a client side iOS - Xamarin application for receiving the notifications.
If Possible how I can create the same. Please help. If it is not possible anyone please suggest me a workaround to implement the same.
You have to consider your mobile applications and your backend different concerns. For your apps it does not matter what is running in the backend.
But what matters is that each of the platforms has its own notification system, see:
Android: An Overview of Remote Notifications in Xamarin.Android
iOS: Push Notifications in iOS
Beside the platform-spefific configuration of certificates etc