I'm working with Windows Azure Notification Hub and Android, testing the notifications push service through GCM. I'm using tags, pushing notifications from a Web application (back-end) integrated with Windows Azure.
The issue is: I don't know how to subscribe from an Android App to listen to those tags.
Create a Custom API with Azure Mobile Apps Server SDK. This should take the device registration Id and then do the registration with Notification Hubs. Azure Mobile Apps Server SDK wraps the Notification Hubs SDK for this purpose.
In your client, you can follow the appropriate Client SDK tutorial on push (Android is here), but use InvokeApi to invoke your custom API to do the registration instead of calling client.getPush().register().
Another good reference is the Android Client HOWTO Docs.
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Hello everyone I have a question about React native notification using Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM). If I use FCM with web app configuration (JavaScript). Will it work on iOS devices ?
No, FCM only handle Push Notification on Android,
You need to use the APNS (Apple Push Notification service) to send a Push Notif to an IOS device.
If you have Expo, you can use a built-in service that will handle both platform for you.
I’ve looked in multiple places, but cannot find details of how to register a web site against a notification hub for the sending and receiving of push messages.
The only like examples I have seen use a custom Node.js server for the web site to interact with.
Would really prefer to use a hub so we can send tagged messages to our browser app at the same time as our native apps.
It sounds like you want to register a web application to Azure Notification Hub to receive notification message. A web application can be as backend to send notification message using SDK in different languages like .NET, Node.js, Java, PHP, and Python. But the answer to receive notification message from web is absolutely not, there is an answer of the exising SO thread Can we register a webapplication to recieve notification from azure notification hub which has answered it.
Azure Notification Hubs are exclusively for push notifications for mobile platforms.
Only one exception is Google Cloud Messaging (GCM) supports Chrome Apps, please see the tutorial Tutorial: Push notifications to Chrome apps with Azure Notification Hubs
For sending and receiving Push Notification in browser, the only way is using Web Push API, you can refer to my answer of this SO thread Azure browser push notification for chrome, firefox ,and safari browser. And there is a Mozilla cookbook site for Web Push to show some examples to help getting started. Then, you can host your web push server on Azure. These Mozilla examples' backend are all using JavaScript based on Node.js, you can get the other web push libraries at this GitHub org web-push-libs if you want to use other languages.
I am reading about and then trying to use IBM Bluemix. I have seen some confusing statement about MBaaS support on Bluemix. Some sites mention that Bluemix is a PaaS, and some places say it supports MBaaS. I have basic doubts: does IBM support MBaaS? If yes, where can I find the full MBaaS features list for IBM Bluemix? I couldn't find it in IBM site.
You're correct: Bluemix is a PaaS. However as you probably know and as you can see here:
Mobile backend as a service (MBaaS) enables you to quickly integrate
your mobile apps with data and functions in security-rich, backend,
cloud storage. MBaaS is usually delivered through a set of custom
software development kits (SDKs) and application programming
interfaces (APIs). MBaaS can offer you full data synchronization, user
management, push notifications, integration with social networking
services, and file-handling.
A PaaS provides SDKs and APIs and for this reason it can support MBaaS. In Bluemix the MBaaS capabilities are provided by the MobileFirst platform. It is designed for building and enhancing multiplatform, enterprise-grade apps that can be native or hybrid – for Android, iOS, and Windows. You can get started here.
Yes, Bluemix Mobile supports a Mobile Backend as a Service.
Here are the current services that we have that support the MBaaS pattern and a bit of information about them (and here's a quick graphical view and some links for how to get started):
Mobile Client Access
This service enables you to secure your Mobile Application. You can add Facebook, Google, or custom authentication to your application.
Push Notifications
You can add the Push Notifications service to send push notifications to your app on Android and iOS.
Mobile Analytics (Beta)
The Mobile Analytics service enables you to gather crash and usage knowlege about customers using your mobile app.
Cloudant NoSQL DB
The Cloudant service is the IBM NoSQL database to store your data.
Object Storage
The Object Storage service is an unstructured cloud data store where you can store things like images or files.
Mobile Foundation
The catalog also includes the Mobile Foundation service which you can use to create a test environment before deploying or purchasing the on-premise software. This service is another way for enabling a developer to create a mobile channel.
You may have a look at this :
http://www.ibm.com/mobilefirst/mobile-backend-as-a-service/mbaas.html
MobileFirst 6.3, or 7.0
I've reviewed the hybrid, and native tutorials on DevWorks, and wanted to get clarification on a few points integrating with BlueMix push service.
Considering a hybrid app (iOS, Android) developed with MFP studio is the hybrid app dependent on the MFP server to subscribe to the provider (BlueMix)?
If the hybrid app is dependent on MFP server to subscribe, will push notifications destined for the device have to be delivered through the MFP server via adapter, or will they be sent directly to the device?
In general I'm trying to understand the minimum role the MFP server can play in developing a hybrid application that will receive BlueMix push notifications.
Thanks
AFAIK, at this time, you cannot use a MFPF-based Hybrid app with the iOS 8-only push notification capabilities that originate from the Blumix Push service.
Also, MFPF adapters do not, at this time, work with Bluemix.
All in all, if you use MFPF, you use the unified push support as supplied and supported in MFPF. If you use Bluemix, that's a different approach to push.
Also, please add links to your questions next time - we shouldn't google/guess those...
I'm interested in using Azure Mobile services with SPA applications... perhaps with PhoneGap and or Kendo.UI as well.
I would like to add authentication to my app, and am looking at Azure Mobile Services. What isn't clear to me is if I can use Zumo (mobile services) to authenticate my app?
Example
User downloads app from store (or uses HTML5 caching to store the app)
The SPA app connects to Azure Mobile to get the OAUTH credentials
The Credentials secure my REST calls to the database (as secured by Azure Mobile)
Can anyone clarify if this architecture is possible?
You can definitely do this. If you go into the quickstart page after creating a new Mobile Service, you'll see one of the supported platforms is HTML/JS. You can download that quickstart application to run a local website that will connect to your Mobile Service and can set up authentication using this flow (http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/mobile/tutorials/get-started-with-users-html/). Dropping this into a PhoneGap application is very simple and just requires downloading the jQuery and Mobile Service javascript files locally (phonegap can't reference remote JS files). The bulk of the HTML can be the exact same. You'll just need to take the JS from the HTML/JS quickstart and drop it into the onReady method (I believe that's what PhoneGap calls once the device is ready for you to use). Hope that helps.