I am developing an app in windows phone where I enter the score of the match and the other windows phone users who has the same app should get that score as a toast notification(if any other better way suggest me).
I also want to push the data to this app users from a rss feed. This feed gets refreshed data for every 1 or 2 mins.
IS this possible to implement this in windows phone ?
If you only want to send the notification of the match score to certain users then you could use Push Notifications.
If everyone needs to get the notification then you would just use a BackgroundAgent. The Background agent will run approximately every 30 minutes (if you need it to be more accurate then you're back to Push Notifications). When the agent runs you could just check to see if there are any new match scores since the time the agent last ran and then pop the toast if there are.
You should also use the Background Agent for checking your RSS feed.
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I'm using IFTTT to send a Google Assistant message to my Windows application via Drop Box. If I say "[keyword] [message]" (for example: "Computer: Play Game of Thrones Season 2 Episode 4") IFTTT will write the text translation of [message] to a file on drop box that my application monitors and from there I can read the [message] and act on it.
What I would like to be able to do is send a reply back to the device that sent the message... For example if I tell my phone to have my computer start a movie on my computer and for whatever reason my app can't find the movie I want to be able to communicate that back to the device that originally sent the message, whether that be my cell phone or tablet or Google Home smart speaker.
I know there is probably no official way to do this but i'm looking for creative solutions (like the one I use to get the message in the first place)... anything at all that works even if it involves multiple third-party services.
There's no good way to send back an acknowledgement through the IFTTT integration. You'd need to build your own Action which would use something like push notifications to communicate between your local device and a cloud-based webhook.
So I want to know how a quickreply toast can be sent to the right person and when you click on it, it goes to the specific person.
Example 1:
Person A texts me, I pull down on the interactive notification and type my response and it gets processed by the background process. How does the applications know that my response goes to Person A. is there an attribute in the XML of the toast that can be a variable, like the phone number?
Example 2:
Person A posts a picture on my facebook, I click on the notification and it takes me to the page on facebook. Again is there an XML variable with a URL of it or something?
You can download this Microsoft Windows UWP sample, where you can see what code they use to manage notifications.
I think that you need Toast notifications:
Toast notifications are small pop ups that appear on the screen for few seconds. They convey messages and can be customized to even play different sounds. New to Windows 10 are actionable toasts where a user has a choice to interact with the notifications by use of a button, for example.
I am building a very basic information based app (Android) for an event, and i'd greatly appreciate your help on the questions below.
Basically, the app will just contain information about the 7 guest speakers at the event.
The attendees (2500 android users) will only get the link to the Android app when they arrive at the venue.
There is no database connected to the app as it just contains static information about the speakers which is hard coded into the app, however i want to build in a small feature so that i can send out custom push notifications to all users (let's assume 2500) at various times, such as when a speak is about to start on stage etc.
QUESTIONS
01 - am i right in saying that Parse allows you to send out custom push notifications in bulk from the Parse dashboard?
02 - is it able to send to 2500 at one time or do they need to be sent out in smaller batches?
03 - at what stage do charges start to occur for all of these custom push notifications
Thanks in advance for your help, it's much appreciated.
01. Yes Parse dashboard enables you to send push notifications in bulk.
02. Yes it is able to send as many push notifications as needed you needn't worry about batches since Parse dashboard is a simple GUI frontend made by Parse.com so you don't do any coding.
03. You can see on this link https://parse.com/plans that per app you have 1 million unique pushes. Unique push is equal to 1 push on 1 device. To be clearer a single user might have 5 devices registered to him so sending a push to 1 user does not mean 1 push but 5 pushes 1 for each device.
**One more thing to note if you are going to be making custom pushes you should think about handling the push notification in the Android app if you plan on doing anything fancy. If its just to show the push with text then you need the basic handling of an incoming push that does nothing once the app is opened by a push notification.
So, Ive made Windows Phone app that contains rss-feeds. I would now like to add the possibility for toasts to popup when a stream is updated. Ive read up on how to use Toasts to notify the user, but how can i make my rss-reader periodically poll the rss-feeds for the latests news when the app is suspended in the background. Example code would be highly appriciated!
Check the "Background Agent Sample" Windows Phone Code Samples to see how you can create a periodic background agent, that will allow you to pool the rss feed(s) and show a toast notification to the user!
I have tried googling for this and came up empty. What I want is a tutorial or example code of how to change my icon on the windows phone like the people application or SMS. For example when you get a new SMS message it puts a number next to the face in the icon. Is there any way for me to do that in my app?
You need to send a Tile Push Notification.
This allows you to update the image, text and (optionally) a number.
Push notifications shoudl be triggered from a remote [web] service.
You can also have the tile update periodically using a ShellTileSchedule.
You can update your application's Tile using Push Notifications from a web service registered with a Microsoft Push Notification Service. However, this isn't absolutely necessary. You can even update your tiles without push notifications, by setting a ShellTileSchedule. The minimum update interval is 1 hour, however.
See here.