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

By : Peppers
Book Image

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

By: Peppers

Overview of this book

Xamarin is a leading cross-platform application development tool used by top companies such as Coca-Cola, Honeywell, and Alaska Airlines to build apps. Version 4 features significant updates to the platform including the release of Xamarin.Forms 2.0 and improvements have been made to the iOS and Android designers. Xamarin was acquired by Microsoft so it is now a part of the Visual Studio family. This book will show you how to build applications for iOS, Android, and Windows. You will be walked through the process of creating an application that comes complete with a back-end web service and native features such as GPS location, camera, push notifications, and other core features. Additionally, you’ll learn how to use external libraries with Xamarin and Xamarin.Forms to create user interfaces. This book also provides instructions for Visual Studio and Windows. This edition has been updated with new screenshots and detailed steps to provide you with a holistic overview of the new features in Xamarin 4.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

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...