Cross Platform Push with AzureJason Farrell

Centare – Chicago, IL

@jfarrell

http://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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Training

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TeamsScaleFlexibility

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TeamsExecutivesOrganizations

Modern / Agile Transformation

MilwaukeeChicagoMadison

Deep 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