I would like to add a Push Notification to a Xamarin Cross Platform application.
My application has MaterDetailPage on the Portable layer. When a notification comes in, I want it to appear as "Messages (1)" in the menu.
How can I do that?
There is no way to do it in cross platfrom, you'll have to implement some custom renderers, as Google and Apple have different ways to implement that.
A nice component for implementing that is https://components.xamarin.com/view/azure-messaging but rememeber that you'll also have to do some backend work.
Regardless of how you decide to implement push notifications, if you intent to develop for iOS I would recomend reading https://developer.xamarin.com/guides/ios/application_fundamentals/notifications/remote_notifications_in_ios/ as you'll probably have some trouble with the certificates/provisioning.
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Say I build a super mobile friendly web application that I want in the Play Store for Android users to be able to download.
Could I use Xamarin to:
Wrap the entire mobile app as a single WebView
Register for mobile push notifications
Essentially shortlining an MVP of an android app by using an existing web app? If so, is there any well-known process or documentation that demonstrates this?
Probably the best approach for you would be using Xamarin Forms with one or more pages containing only web views.
I don't love Xamarin Forms because usually for me Xamarin Android+iOS gives a better result in similar time, but your app would be so simple that doesn't make sense to do it with Xamarin Android.
Make sure that your web app will show only what makes sense to be shown in your app, otherwise you risk to see double header/footer, useless buttons... but if the website is yours adding a few parameters to change a bit the UI won't be a problem I guess.
Have a look at this example:
https://github.com/xamarin/xamarin-forms-samples/tree/master/WorkingWithWebview
Another approach is the use of Razor to build your pages in html directly inside your app, but if I understood well it's not what you need:
https://developer.xamarin.com/guides/cross-platform/advanced/razor_html_templates/
Although it is technically possible to do this as the previous answer has suggested. I would recommended firstly reviewing, the relevant stores guidelines on submissions. Apple for example will not allow a submission to their store of any application that simply mirrors the functionality of a website. I suspect Google's would likely be the same.
However that said, to answer your question, Xamarin.Forms would be appropriate for a simple application like the one you are suggesting. Or if you prefer to build to a specific OS, then in iOS with Xamarin you would use the Safari View Controller that was added in it's xcode 8.1 release. Android uses something similar as does windows.
EDIT:
You can use the Web View control in Xamarins Andorid native PCL project to encapsulate your mobile friendly website within an application here is the documentation:
Xamarin Android Developer link to Android Web View
As for push notifications, yes this is perfectly possible using Xamarin.Android. and varies on implementation depending on what you want to use as the back end to handle them, I.E. Azure's notification hub etc.
I´m a bit new to Xamarin Forms development, but not to Android (Java) development. Here´s the scenario:
I´ve developed an app for android, which schedules notifications (NotificationManager) and adds an intent to each notification in order to redirect the user to a specific url inside a webview. The url came from the notification intent.
So, I´m doing exactly the same thing in xamarin, in order to build the iOS version. Since I´m also an ASP.NET, I chose this method.
I´ve done all the basic stuff, so far:
created the webview with the right address;
created the routine which sets the cross-platform notifications using CrossLocalNotifications (Xam.Plugins.Notifier)
This is the problem:
I need to create a method in which the app redirects (webview) the user, once he clicks the notifications, in the portable solution level. I think I can manage to develop the logic to use the webview I currently have. I just can´t seem to find anywhere on the web a tip for creating a method to "listen" to the user click and catch information (or just the ID) of the notification created, so I can build the routine.
Anyone can help or have a better solution?
Hell. I'm just write my first mobile app and I use XamarinForms
So I try understand to understand how work push notification here....and i'm a little bit confused
So this is what I understand
For android I MUST(!) use google cloud messaging - right?
For iOS - I MUST(!) use Apple Apple Notification Push Service - right?
Now my question:
If I use xamarin forms - i write 1 code to 2 platfoms andoid/iOS - right??
so how i can write 1 code both for gcm and apple notif????
How I think - but not sure - I need write interface in my PCL and then write separate implementation in each platform??
This is write way??
Why I need Push notifications?
I have app and when admin attach task to user - he will get notification about he has new task.
Or when user use app - real time get new data - new task
So if you can give me a tips - thank you.
Sorry for my English grammar)
Thank you.
Take a look to this plugin https://github.com/rdelrosario/xamarin-plugins/tree/master/PushNotification in the description you can find the proper setup for each platform.
Also keep in mind that even if you're using Xamarin.Forms you will need to know how works push notifications on each platform.
Android. https://developers.google.com/cloud-messaging/
iOS. https://developer.apple.com/notifications/
is you have any specific question about it pls let me know
Azure has "push notification hub" that plugs into both iOS and Google
Try that. Once youve set it up it will push stuff to google and to apple.
I've designed a custom notification for an app I'm working on for Apple Watch. The notifications look good but because of the current technical limitations I don't want to build a launchable app or glance until I have mic and speaker access. Is it possible to display dynamic notifications without having an app icon on the home screen of the watch or is the watch app mandatory to have a dynamic notification at all?
No, you will need to add a dynamic Notification scene in your Watch app.
If you want to read more information about this I'd refer you to this page:
https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/General/Conceptual/WatchKitProgrammingGuide/CustomzingthePushNotificationInterface.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40014969-CH6-SW1
How to implement such appearance for notification card using Android Wear SDK?
Demo video — http://youtu.be/tKoQatxG0_8?t=26s
It has the same custom layout in preview and active mode. But I cannot achieve such behaviour using setDisplayIntent and related API for creating custom layouts. I checked samples of wear apps from SDK, it also has different views for preview and active mode of custom layout notifications.
Oh no!
Right now it's hidden API, so Google can make such appearance for standard apps, but other third-party developers are out of the board.
Confirmed by +Wayne Piekarski — https://plus.google.com/u/0/+BenoitBoDLubek/posts/2o4SVBhWg5z
So the answer is impossible at current moment.