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Send mobile notifications with notification hubs

Send mobile notifications with notification hubs - Azure Tutorial

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Send mobile notifications with notification hubs

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- [Instructor] Azure Notification Hubs is a massively scalable mobile push notification engine. Use it to quickly send millions of notifications to mobile devices. For example, we could use it to send codes for multi-factor authentication. Another example, use notifications to send location-based coupons to interested users. Or in a map application, we could analyze traffic trends on the planned commute route. When the forecast is for heavy traffic, send a notification to leave earlier. Azure Notification Hubs works with many devices, from Android, iOS, Kindle, and Windows. One nice feature is that you don't have to worry about the disparate native notification systems. When you send a message with Notification Hubs, it gets sent with the proper native push system, so it'll use Apple Push Notification for Apple devices, Google Cloud Messaging for Android devices and so on. It is flexible enough to plug into any backend, for example, Microsoft .NET, PHP, Java, and Node.js. This makes…

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