i wanted to show azure's chat bots responses as notifications in the notification bar like PUSH notifications.
I've came across that i need to use xamarin webview to integrate bot in Android app. So, can webview capable of showing chat responses as push notifications ?
Note:-
I'm using Bot Framework SDK V4
and .Net Core
Xamarin for cross platform development
The WebChat control (webview in your questions) is used as a UX display control within your app. Messages from your bot to your app goes through a dedicated channel that has nothing to do with a mobile Push Notification. So in short, the answer to your question is no, this functionality is currently not supported by the client Webview control (WebChat).
With that said, you can create a custom middleware component for your bot that can send a Push Notification message using Azure Notification Hub. Or you can create custom functionality (sample showing a standard web app) in your bot that sends a push notification. Or your bot can drop a message to a queue and have an Azure Function pick the queue message and send the push notification. Note the last option is an implementation detail.
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We have configured push notifications in our Xamarin Application for both android and iOS. In iOS notifications are being received properly. But in Android, specifically when the app is closed the notifications are not being received properly.
When the app is open, push notification is triggered and displayed properly as expected, can be observed in the screenshot attached.
When the app is closed, push notification is triggered and displayed as "body", can be observed in the screenshot attached.
Note* Notifications are being sent from ASP.net core with Azure Notifications hub.
The payload looks like below : new JObject(new JProperty("notification", pushMessage)).ToString(Formatting.None);
Andoid Notifications
I tried changing notification payload in different ways but still result didn't change.
I have created one Chatbot using MS Bot Framework. Also added that in My Teams App. But not able to send messages to the users who not installed that app in there Teams. I just wanted to check if there is any provision to send the message to the users who not installed the Bot to there Teams App.
There is no way to send proactive messages to users who have not installed and interacted with your bot. Your bot has no way of knowing who those users are. If a user wants to communicate with the bot, they must install the app.
Adding to this. I ran into a similar issue where I had a Teams app that uses a notification style bot to send one-way notifications to users. The only way I was able to communicate to them was by getting the user context via an app install event. When an install event is captured, I save that users' context into a SQL database table in the event of the bot being restarted (then reload on start).
You can use the Graph API to install the bot automatically (see Proactive installation of apps using Graph API to send messages) or install it via a MS Teams app setup policies (see Install apps).
I created an Azure Bot and set the Messaging Endpoint to my web-app, which is not hosted on Azure.
I created a deploy package zip as a Teams App to be deployed on Teams and use my bot.
My messaging endpoint gets the ConversationUpdate events with membersAdded type when the customer adds my bot to Teams, and when users are added. The events are sent to the Messaging Endpoint configured in my bot.
When the customer deletes the App from Teams I do not get any event to the messaging endpoint.
According to https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams/which-event-fired-when-someone-uninstall-your-app-in-microsoft/m-p/1610299 I expected to get an event with type teamMemberRemoved to the bot messaging endpoint.
I need to know the Teams App was removed so I can clean up resources on my end, and indicate in my UI to the customer that the bot is no longer configured for his Teams team.
I tried adding and removing the App from my Teams account a few times but never got the expected event to the messaging endpoint.
How can I know that my App was uninstalled on a Teams team?
If you just want to know when the App is getting added or remove you can use OnInstallationUpdateAsync, here you will get the type installationUpdate and action as remove when it gets uninstalled.
I tried with onConversationUpdateAsync as well and got the request as . Please confirm once if you are handling it property,
I wonder if I can measure my push notifications open and receive rate, sent by my backend. I use laravel right now and I use firebase admin SDK to send push notification from my backend server.
However, I cannot measure my push notification open and receive rate because it doesn't appeared in firebase console. Is there any way out like if google have API for us to grab the push notification data, or anything else ?
I'm also open for using another push notification service, as long they provide the analytics tools for the push notification campaign.
Thanks
Hi Kevin currently only the console allows automatic tracking of notification opens and other metrics. You could log these events yourself with the Google Analytics for Firebase SDK. Thanks for the feedback, this would be a useful feature.
I am thinking of a simple chat application in Window Phone using Microsoft Push Notification Service.
I read a guide at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh202967(v=VS.92).aspx which talks about creating a client application that receive toast notification.
This is a first time for me to develop a mobile application so I do not get some part of it.
The question that I have is, is it possible for a client (window phone) to send toast notification directly to other client? I have found below image from the web. It seems that I need to have Cloud Application(probably webserver?) to play with notification service.
Would it be possible to build a Window phone application that directly request to MPNS to send notification to other window phone application? (so from the picture above, '2' will directly point to Microsoft Push Notification Service)
If it is not, what is the reason for that?
There is a good explanation of the push notification service here.
From the above link.
Registration Phase 2: Now that the MPNS known the presence of the
phone on the network, it is required the phone itself provide the Uri
to the Earthquake service. Until this not happen the service doesn't
know there is a phone that need to be notified so it is not able to
provide the notifications. The phone must call a method on the
Earthquake service to provide the Uri that has been answered by the
MPNS. Once the Earthquake service gets this url it can store this
informations somewhere for a later use.
In your case you'll need communication between your devices before any notifications can be sent. This is to know the uri of your phone. A server has to store these uris for all devices registered for notifications. This is why you'll need an application which sends the xml to the MPNS.