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Xamarin 4.x Cross-Platform Application Development - Third Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Dec 2016
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ISBN-13 9781786465412
Pages 292 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Author (1):
Jonathan Peppers Jonathan Peppers
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Xamarin 4.x Cross-Platform Application Development - Third Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
1. Xamarin Setup 2. Hello, Platforms! 3. Code Sharing Between iOS and Android 4. XamSnap - A Cross-Platform App 5. XamSnap for iOS 6. XamSnap for Android 7. Deploying and Testing on Devices 8. Contacts, Camera, and Location 9. Web Services with Push Notifications 10. Third-Party Libraries 11. Xamarin.Forms 12. App Store Submission

Using the Apple Push Notification service


Implementing push notifications with Azure Notification Hubs on iOS is very simple to set up from Azure's perspective. The most complicated part is working through Apple's process of creating certificates and provisioning profiles in order to configure your iOS application. Before continuing, make sure you have a valid iOS Developer Program account, as you will not be able to send push notifications without it. If you are unfamiliar with the concept of push notifications, take a look at Apple's documentation at http://tinyurl.com/XamarinAPNS.

To send push notifications, you need to set up the following:

  • An explicit App ID registered with Apple

  • A provisioning profile targeting that App ID

  • A certificate for your server to trigger the push notification

Apple provides both a development and production certificate, which you can use to send push notifications from your server.

Setting up your provision profile

Let's begin by navigating to http://developer.apple...

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