Adding push notifications is simple to do, using Azure Mobile Services. In this video, Yavor Georgiev walks through the easy four step process involved in setting it up.
Building and deploying a server app, necessary to support push notifications, can be hard if your primary focus is mobile client app development. This is where Azure can help – check out this recently published Channel 9 video.
To get started, check out the full details on the Azure Developer Portal. Before you start this tutorial, you must first complete either Get started with Mobile Services or Get started with data to connect your project to the mobile service. When a mobile service has not been connected, the Add Push Notification wizard creates this connection for you.
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