Im working on a windows 8.1 project for a client, the app wont be on store.
I was asked to implement push notifications but from what i've read we need to register app on store to enable that funcionality.
Is there any other alternativo to push notifications or a way of getting them without having the app on store?
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While working with Windows Phone Push Notifications, I got myself stuck in the part of creating the "cloud web service" to receive the negotiated URL and retrieve updates to the mobile device.Is it possible to create this Web Service without using Windows Azure services (I don't want to pay anything, I just want to push with my services to my apps)? And how can I create this Cloud Web Service.
I haven't worked extensively with Windows Phone 8.1. Check this webpage for Windows Phone 8 -
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh202970%28v=vs.105%29.aspx
You will get a URL for each device you want to get notification on through the app you create. Taking help from the above link, you can create a local server (Cloud Web Service) for testing push notifications for your test devices.
I have developed Windows Phone Silverlight application (support 8.0 and 8.1) for my client request. The client is goint to publish the application in WP app store, but first he must check on his phone if everything is OK with the application.
The application was developed with Visual Studio 2013, I've got developer account and own phone assigned to this account on which I have tested the application.
The question is, how can my client install the application on his own phone skipping windows app store? I have sent him builded *.xap file but he had a some problems with installation (Cannot install company application)?
You can submit your app to Windows Phone Store BETA. Your app will by certified quickly, and your client will be able to download it just like any other app from Store. The difference is that it will be visible and possible only for him.
Log in to you DevCenter account, click Submit App. Then, in App info section expand More options and select Beta. Then you can provide your client's mail.
I'm not sure, but I think that the name of the app should not be the same as the final version. So you can name it "My App Beta" to avoid future name conflict with the final version.
One more thing. When your app pass certification process, you have to send the link to the app to your client, because he won't get any notification.
I'm a new Windows Phone developer and I'm trying create push notification. I don't understand much about push notification, and have a couple of questions.
Push notification windows phone need cloud service,so can I use Google Cloud Service or only use Microsoft Cloud Service.
How to register URI from the Microsoft Push Notification Service?
You will have only two options here:
1)MPNS
2)WNS
If you are using WP8 then I will suggest to go with MPNS o.w. you can use WNS.
you can use MPNS directly by sending notification URI to server but for WNS you will need to generate secrete key and need to use Azure service.
You can use these steps to create server and WP8 App, if you are using MPNS as you are using WP8.
And about GCM you can not use it here.
I'm planning to develop windows phone app which can send my PC clipboard to the phone. I want to use push notifications for this. I found this paragraph on the msdn windows phone documentation library
After your Windows Phone client app has registered for notifications, you can send notifications to the app. Typically, this is done with a web service that keeps a collection of URIs to send notifications to, but it also can be done with any app that can send messages to the Microsoft Push Notification Service.
This seems to imply that I don't need to set up a web service. Is there some way I can send push notifications directly from my app to MPNS?
Yes, your desktop app can communicate directly with MPNS.
Use the same code as for the web service.
I have Windows Phone 8 emulator running and a sample app is registering and I receive the URI but when I try to send a notification, I'm not receiving in the emulator. I used to be able to use the sample app with WP7 emulator and it was working and I'm able to access internet on the WP8 but not the notification. Any pointers to fix this will be great!
This is what I saw happening:
1- If I didn't open the app after receiving multiple notification it looks like the OS will not show notification anymore.
2- if you try to send too many notifications.
3- If the app is open the notification will not show as a toast.
4- Sometime I had to open the browser and go to website to force the device to connect to the internet, probably because the phone was on wifi.
It's a pretty open question, since there might be multiple problems, but start with this (source: MSDN):
The push client service on Windows Phone Emulator must be ready before
you can use push notification APIs. Push client service on the
emulator takes two minutes to activate after you start the emulator,
starting from when the Start screen first appears.