Cross Platform Push with AzureJason FarrellCentare – Chicago, IL@jfarrellhttp://www.jfarrell.net

Who Am I? Staff Consultant for Centare

Chicago Consultant for 6yrs (Chicago,

Michigan, NYC) Variety of verticals Specializing in web, client, and

mobile Hockey and Travel enthusiast

Who is Centare?

Assessment

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Agile TechniquesALMCloud

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TeamsScaleFlexibility

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TeamsExecutivesOrganizations

Modern / Agile Transformation

MilwaukeeChicagoMadisonDeep Platform Leadership

Modern / Agile Software Delivery

Lets talk about why

Push Notification by Platform

Apple Push Notification Service (APNS)

Launch in 2009 Device Token is for security, to

identify the device Payload size may NOT exceed

256 bytes Shared with OSX (>= Lion)

Service Polling Service polls a remote service in

the background (Twitter)

Google Cloud Messaging Successor to Google Cloud to

Device Messaging (C2DM) 4KB payload limit ID Based

Microsoft Push Notification Service (MPNS) Raw allows 1KB for payload size

Windows Notification Service (WNS) Requires a token 5kb payload size

Full featured Send Raw, Tile, and Toast

The Tiles

How it works

Push Notification Registration

Send a request for a Push identifierIdentifier received from Notification Service

How it works

Push Service

Mobile Services

A bit about Azure Mobile Services

Cloud based storage Backed by SQL Azure

Integrated with node.js for Push Notifications

Supports authentication against Twitter, Facebook, Microsoft, and Google

No REST API for notifications

node.js Integration

Full featured API for all push services

Can send badges for iOS, sound file, and additional data if desired

GCM sends a JSON object to the Android device, pull extras (demo)

MPNS has methods for each of the supported notification methods

WNS has a method for every support notification as well (over 50 ways)

Pricing Free and Reserved Reserved is $0.10/hr per instance

Free is shared, Reserved is dedicated Free 165MB outbound data per day

5GB free on standard rates

Pay for the database – most subscriptions grant free DB space ~$5/mn for a since DB between 0 and 100MB

http://bit.ly/MobileCalc

Cross Platform Push DemonstrationSignalR, MVC4, Web API, Objective-C, Java, C#, XAML, JavaScript

How the Demo works

Client Devices

Registration API

Azure Mobile Services

Web App

Closing Thoughts

Resources

http://www.parse.com http://bit.ly/AzureMS http://bit.ly/windowsphonepush http://bit.ly/Win8TileList http://bit.ly/PushReference http://bit.ly/PushDemoSource - Complete Demo Source code

Questions or Comments

Thank You