Azure Notification Hub - Send Push Notifications to Mobile Devices

What is Azure Notification Hubs?

Azure Notification Hubs provides the users an easy way to use, scaled -out push engine. The users can easily send targeted and personalized push notifications to any mobile platform from any cloud or on- premises back end.

Push Notification

• The users are notified of certain desired information usually pop- up or dialog box in the of app- to- user communication.
• Based on the users requirement they can choose to view or dismiss the message
• Push notifications for enterprise apps are used for communicating up-to – date business information.

Azure Notification Hub: How push Notifications Works

• It uses the platform notification system services to send the notification
• If you want to build any applications and send to various customers based on the OS operating mobiles like iOS, android and windows the developer must work with the APNS FCM and WNS

At high level

• If the clients decides if it wants to receive pushes hence contacts the corresponding PNS to retrieve its unique and temporary handles the push
• the clint app stores this handle in the app back- end or provider
• If you want to send push notification the app contacts the back-end and the PNS using the handle to target a specific client app
• the PNS forwards the notification to the device specified by the handle