Azure Notification Hub Registration from Android and WinUI Devices

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Azure Notification Hub Registration from Android and WinUI Devices

dg2k 1,416

We are in the process of migrating a published app from Xamarin to .NET MAUI. We're inching toward the final steps but see no obvious solution for notification registration on Azure.

We used packages Xamarin.Azure.NotificationHubs.Android for Xamarin-Android and WindowsAzure.Messaging.Managed for Xamarin-UWP.

Can you suggest if package(s) exist for .NET MAUI to register Android and WinUI devices on Azure notification hub, or a workaround to do the equivalent?

VenkateshDodda-MSFT 25,111 Reputation points Microsoft Employee Moderator

2022-07-11T12:57:29.33+00:00

Hello anonymous user-4673,
Thanks for reaching out. I am checking with the internal team on this. will update you once i hear back.

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VenkateshDodda-MSFT 25,111 Reputation points Microsoft Employee Moderator

2022-07-11T12:57:29.33+00:00

Hello anonymous user-4673,
Thanks for reaching out. I am checking with the internal team on this. will update you once i hear back.

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VenkateshDodda-MSFT 25,111 Microsoft Employee Moderator

anonymous user-4673 Thanks for your patience on this.

Based on the feedback from internal team, you can try using Xamarin.Azure.NotificationHubs.Android NuGet for Android app, and Microsoft.Azure.NotificationHubs for the Windows app. Both NuGets don’t have any dependency on the UI framework, so they should work with MAUI as well.

Here is a GitHub issue opened by someone who tried (and finally succeeded) using the Xamarin Firebase NuGet in MAUI.

Feel free to reach back to be if you have any further questions on this

dg2k 1,416

Thank you @VenkateshDodda-MSFT .
Yes, I got it to work. Because Microsoft.Azure.NotificationHubs package replaces the WindowsAzure.Messaging.Managed package, there is a slight change while migrating as summarized below:

The Old Xamarin-UWP Way: (if using WindowsAzure.Messaging.Managed, but also Microsoft.Azure.NotificationHubs can be used.)

using Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Messaging;  
using Windows.Networking.PushNotifications;  
  
var channel = await PushNotificationChannelManager.CreatePushNotificationChannelForApplicationAsync();  
var clientHub = new NotificationHub(<HubName>, <ConnectionString>);  
var regResult = await clientHub.RegisterTemplateAsync(channel.Uri, <XmlTemplate>, <TemplateName>, <TagsList>);

The New .NET MAUI-WinUI Way:

using Microsoft.Azure.NotificationHubs;  
using Windows.Networking.PushNotifications;  
  
var channel = await PushNotificationChannelManager.CreatePushNotificationChannelForApplicationAsync();  
var clientHub = new NotificationHubClient(<ConnectionString>, <HubName>);  
var regResult = await clientHub.CreateWindowsTemplateRegistrationAsync(channel.Uri, <XmlTemplate>, <TagsList>);

ConnectionString: From Notification Hub registration at Azure Portal.
HubName: From Notification Hub registration at Azure Portal.
XmlTemplate: Windows WNS XML template definition.
TemplateName: Just what it says but never used it other than assigning a dummy name.
TagsList: Notification tags to be subscribed to.

Bradley Plett 36 Reputation points

2022-11-10T19:54:08.023+00:00

Any chance you could post a working demo to GitHub? I need to get this working, but I'm not porting from Xamarin - I'm trying to get push notifications working from scratch. There doesn't seem to be quite enough here to get it working.

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