Push Notification Channels Azure JS Backend

Question

I'm developing a Xamarin.Forms app right now and am having some trouble configuring push notifications. I have followed the docs on https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/partner-xamarin-mobile-services-xamarin-forms-get-started-push/, but this only teaches you how to respond to a request with a push notification.

How can I create a push notification and send it to a user in Xamarin.Forms? How can I set up different push channels so that specific groups of users are notified at a single time?

As it is, here is my Javascript backend code for responding with push notifications:

  function insert(item, user, request) {
  // Execute the request and send notifications.
     request.execute({
     success: function() {                      
      // Create a template-based payload.
      var payload = '{ "message" : "New item added: ' + item.text + '" }';            

      // Write the default response and send a notification
      // to all platforms.            
      push.send(null, payload, {               
          success: function(pushResponse){
          console.log("Sent push:", pushResponse);
          // Send the default response.
          request.respond();
          },              
          error: function (pushResponse) {
              console.log("Error Sending push:", pushResponse);
               // Send the an error response.
              request.respond(500, { error: pushResponse });
              }           
       });                 
      }
   });   
  }

This is just a suggestion. It is worth to take a look at parse.com that has a push notification service and very simple APIs for all platforms. — a.toraby

Adam Adam · Accepted Answer · 2015-10-25T21:31:04

Push notifications are tricky because they need different handling per platform even on forms. This article goes through the whole process with a .net back end but it should answer your questions.

http://www.xamarinhelp.com/push-notifications/

You send to different types of users by getting them to register to different tags, then sending only to those tags. Tags are what you would call groups.

Push Notification Channels Azure JS Backend

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