Xamarin Evolve 2013 - Push Notifications with PushSharp

Push Notifications are a great way to update users of you app with alerts and information in an effective, standard, and efficient way. Come and learn about what Push Notifications are and how they work on all the mobile platforms, and how you can use PushSharp to deliver notifications to your apps!

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1. Jonathan Dick
   DBA / Developer
   Xamarin Enthusiast
   jondick@gmail.com
   @redth
   Push Notifications
   with PushSharp
   

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2. Push Notifications
   • what + why
   • how
   • platforms
   • PushSharp
   • demo
   • questions
   

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3. A Toast to all the Platforms!
   

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4. What
   • Anti-polling
   • Blackberry started it
   • IMAP IDLE
   • Everybody’s doing it
   • Apple invented it (again)
   

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5. Why
   • Timely
   • Efficient
   • Scalable
   • Standard UX
   

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6. How
   

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7. Platforms
   • Google
   C2DM: Cloud 2 Device Messaging
   GCM: Google Cloud Messaging
   • Windows
   WNS: Windows Notification Service
   MPNS: Microso Push Notification Service
   • Apple
   APNS: Apple Push Notification Service
   

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8. Ways to Send
   • Azure Mobile Services
   • Urban Airship
   • Parse
   • Drawbacks
   

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9. PushSharp
   • Server Side
   • Client Lib for Xamarin.Android
   • Open Source - Apache 2 - GitHub
   • iOS, Android, Windows, Windows Phone, soon
   Firefox OS, Amazon ADM
   • Managed Code
   • Fluent-ish Notification API
   

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10. PushSharp 2.0
    • Released mid March
    • Focus on refactoring
    Unit testing
    Decoupling
    Simplifying
    • Improved APNS
    • Better scalability
    

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11. DEMO
    

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12. Q&A
    

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13. THANK YOU
    

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