I am currently using Azure Notification Hub to send push notifications. I however also need to make use of in-app messaging, a feature I am only of being provided by Firebase at the moment: Firebase In-App Messaging
Does Azure/Microsoft have such a service?
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I found that when I clicked on the Azure Mobile Engagement link, the page jumped to the Visual Studio App Center page.
So I searched for relevant information and hope it will be useful to you.
Configuring App Center for Push Notifications
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Microsoft has Azure Mobile Engagement.
Azure Mobile Engagement is now generally available. Azure Mobile Engagement has SDKs available for Apple iOS, Google Android, Windows Universal Apps, Windows Phone Apps and Apache Cordova.
General Availability: Azure Mobile Engagement
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I am building the backend for our company's mobile app and we need to send notifications to users from API based on some events. I need some advice on how I can implement this. I am looking for a platform where I can send notifications for both IOS and Android. I recently came across Firebase and got some info that the mobile-app will send a device token to the server, then we will handle the push notification using this token. My assumption here is, I need to save this device token for all the users in a database and send the notification as necessary. Is this the best approach or are there any other good approaches for this? I am pretty sure there will a lot of solutions where I do not have to handle this myself (in database)
I was also looking into Azure Notification Hub for this, but the cons I felt here is that my UI guy (outsourced) is developing the application in React Native and I have not seen any good examples of React Native using Azure Notification Hub.
I am expecting around 1000 users for my application and I am developing my backend in ASP.NET WebAPI. Mostly I will have 2 types of notification
Push notification to specific user.
Push Notification regarding new installations to all the users
Well, according to my experience the best way and the easiest way is using firebase. You will have a lots of option there. In fact according to their comment, whether you're a beginner, intermediate or advanced React Native developer you can be up and running with React Native Firebase in no time.
https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-native-firebase
For more information and adding a project:
https://rnfirebase.io
Firebase getting start:
https://github.com/invertase/react-native-firebase-starter
How does it work?
Firebase Cloud Messaging architecture diagram
An FCM implementation includes two main components for sending and receiving:
A trusted environment such as Cloud Functions for Firebase or an app server on which to build, target, and send messages.
An iOS, Android, or web (JavaScript) client app that receives messages.
You can send messages via the Admin SDK or the HTTP and XMPP APIs. For testing or for sending marketing or engagement messages with powerful built-in targeting and analytics, you can also use the Notifications composer.
last comment copy-right: https://firebase.google.com/docs/cloud-messaging/
We are using MobileFirst 7.1.0.0-MFPF-IF201705051403 version.
We found some fraudulent activity with one of our users using Mobile App.
How do I block this user/devices from further accessing our mobile first servers?
You can use the mobile application management feature to control user/device access. See here for more details.
I have a question regarding the distribution of apps through the IBM mobilefirst app centre.
The mobile client would need to have an apple certificate as it will be place on the store so that users can get access to the application centre via the mobile client
However, do the apps within the application centre also need to be certified by apple?
Can anyone help confirm this? or share some insight
There are no apps inside the appcenter application. They all reside on a remote server and they never go through Apple.
I'm developing an iOS application in which I am using Firebase Cloud Messaging. When I'm installing the FCM SDK, in the Pod's section, the Firebase Analytics SDK automatically installed. Please anyone let me know.
Firebase Analytics is the core of Firebase and it "also integrates with a number of other Firebase features. For example, it automatically logs events that correspond to your Firebase Notifications and provides reporting on the impact of each campaign." If you don't want it, you can disable it (here)
Can I use Google Ads in my Windows Store apps?
If yes, then How? Google AdSense requires me to enter a Web Site address for my content review. How can I tell them that I'm developing an App?
If No, then what Ad policy may I use?
Per Google's page
The use of AdSense for mobile in a mobile application is a violation
of AdSense policies. A mobile application constitutes any downloadable
application, even if a WebView is used to display the ad. Any AdSense
for mobile ad units found in mobile applications will be disabled. If
you’re looking for an advertising solution for your mobile
application, please sign up for AdMob, Google’s leading mobile
advertising display product.
I am currently trying Microsoft Pub Center which is easy to setup in Windows Store Apps.