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Cross Platform Push with Azure

Cross Platform Push with Azure. Jason 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

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Cross Platform Push with Azure

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  1. Cross Platform Push with Azure Jason Farrell Centare – Chicago, IL @jfarrell http://www.jfarrell.net

  2. 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

  3. Who is Centare? Modern / Agile Transformation Teams Executives Organizations 3 Coaching 1 2 Assessment Training Modern / Agile Software Delivery Turnkey Off Site On Site 3 Milwaukee Chicago Madison Deep Platform Leadership 1 Agile Techniques ALM Cloud Teams Scale Flexibility 2

  4. Lets talk about why

  5. Push Notification by Platform

  6. 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)

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. The Tiles

  10. How it works Push Notification Registration Send a request for a Push identifier Identifier received from Notification Service

  11. How it works Push Service

  12. Mobile Services

  13. 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

  14. 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)

  15. 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

  16. Cross Platform Push Demonstration SignalR, MVC4, Web API, Objective-C, Java, C#, XAML, JavaScript

  17. How the Demo works Azure Mobile Services Web App Registration API Client Devices

  18. Closing Thoughts

  19. 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

  20. Questions or Comments

  21. Thank You

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