push notifications Genexus - genexus

This is my first question, and don't wanna be the last one. I need to know how to register the device from the phone to the register service in order to have enabled the push notifications in Genexus.

When you have push notifications enabled on your SD application, the application automatically calls the procedure NotificationsRegistrationHandler, here you have to handle the registration of your device on your notifications provider (for example onesignal)

The best way to have Push Notifications up and running with GeneXus, is using GeneXus OneSignal implementation.
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Firebase Admin SDK Push notification cannot be measured

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.

Handling Toast and Raw Push Notifications

My WP7 app needs to handle different types of push notification. Some of these are only relevant when the app is running but one type serves as a prompt to the user to start the app as well as needing to be handled while the app is running. Hence, when opening the push channel, my code calls BindToShellToast and registers event handlers for when both raw and toast notifications are received:
if (!_pushChannel.IsShellToastBound)
{
_pushChannel.BindToShellToast();
}
_pushChannel.HttpNotificationReceived += new EventHandler<HttpNotificationEventArgs>(pushChannel_HttpNotificationReceived);
_pushChannel.ShellToastNotificationReceived += new EventHandler<NotificationEventArgs>(pushChannel_ShellToastNotificationReceived);
Looking at the certification requirements, it appears that I have to provide a user setting to allow them to enable/disable not only push notifications in general, but also specifically toast notifications. See Additional requirements for specific app types for Windows Phone (requirement 6.2.1)
Since the user could potentially enable general push notifications but disable toast notifications, it seems to me that my server would need to send both a raw and a toast notification for the type that needs to be handled when the app is not running. This would make registering for the ShellToastNotificationReceived event pointless. Is my thinking correct here?
You should store a settings on your server for each registered device naming what type of notification the user allowed.

what is the format of message that we pass to MSPN service?

What is the format of message that we pass to MSPN service from our cloud application in the case of push notification in windows 7 phone? I know its XML but what all information should it contain?
The MSDN article on Sending Push Notifications for Windows Phone includes all details and examples of the different Push notification content types.
There's also more on Push Notifications at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff402537(v=vs.92).aspx

Windows Phone 7 - Is it possible to add additional key/values to push notifications messages

I'm testing out Windows Phone 7.5 push notifications. I have got the 3 different push types working fine (Toast, Tile and Raw) and am able to send messages from unit tests and a web application without any problems and receive them in my WP application. I want the ability to add extra properties to the push notification and the Raw push type does this perfectly for me and I can add custom key/value pairs or anything else to the push message and extract it on the phone app. I have just found out however that it only works if the application is running and my unit tests fail (suppressed notification status is received in unit test) when the phone application is not running (checked documentation which confirms this too). Is there anyway to add extra properties (key/values) to toast or tile messages or some way I can use raw in another way ? Toast notifications seem limited to a title property and an actual message property but I need to add additional data.
Just wondering if anyone had any suggestions / workarounds ?
The general practice I use is to initially send a raw notification to the device with phone-usable data embedded in the message. If my application is currently running then I can process the contents of the raw message and immediately make use of it on the phone. However if the application is not currently running on the phone you will receive notification from the push servers that the message could not be delievered. If I receive this response I send out a Toast / Tile notification.
With Toast notifications the only parametrisation you have access to is the URI that will launch the application. This is specified with the wp:param node of the message. Eg.
<wp:Notification xmlns:wp="WPNotification">
<wp:Toast>
<wp:Text1>Toast Title</wp:Text1>
<wp:Text2>Toast sub title</wp:Text2>
<wp:Param>/MainPage.xaml?LaunchedFrom=A%20Toast%20Notification</wp:Param>
</wp:Toast>
</wp:Notification>
If the user taps on this toast notification your application will launch and navigate to MainPage.xaml. You can access the querystring passed in via the NavigationContext.QueryString.
Note: The wp:Param node can only be sent to Mango (and up) devices. Additionally the entire contents must be less than 256 characters or you'll receive a PushErrorTypeMessageBadContent error. (Thanks to Ritch Melton for pointing this out). More info available from the Sending Push Notifications for Windows Phone page on MSDN.
As you've discovered, the Microsoft Push Notification Service is very strict in what types of messages you can send and receive. The intent of these push notifications is to provide simple push updates and not large amounts of data. The flexible Raw type seems like it would fit the bill until you discover that:
You can use a raw notification to send information to your application. If your application is not currently running, the raw notification is discarded on the Microsoft Push Notification Service and is not delivered to the device.
However, if you send a toast notification to your application, when the user clicks on the toast the application is started. When your application starts, you should check a service and retrieve the data you are trying to send from a web-service or other remote mechanism.

Using Microsoft Push Notification Service with Window Phone

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.

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