.NET Maui Notifications
I have done a lot of searching on the internet to find a solution for using the latest .NET Maui and handling push notifications from Azure Notification Hub but there has been nothing quite comprehensive enough to follow. After a bit of trial and error I have gotten to this code base which works!
Notes
- It is using .NET 7.
- It is only doing Android notifications through Firebase for the moment. Planning to add iOS.
- I used the Firebase console to download google-services.json
- I have only run it on a Pixel 5 emulator.
- I decided to include the Plugin.LocalNotification package for local notifications as I was having no luck trying to use NotificationCompat (see https://github.com/xamarin/AndroidX/issues/71) as is shown in the Microsoft Tutorial.
- I have only tested a test message from the Azure Notification Hub that goes to everyone so there is no targeting yet.
- I also included some Azure DevOps pipelines I have started in case you are looking for them.
To Use
In order to use this you will need to make some modifications for your use as listed below:
- Update the app id
com.companyname.yourappid to your correct id wherever this string is.
- Update the content in google-services.json based on your configuration. NOTE: Ensure your app id matches the package_name in this file.
- Replace the CONNECTION_STRING and HUB_NAME in the MainActivity class with your settings.
At this point you should be able to build and run on an Android emulator and send a test message from the Azure Notification Hub.
Contributions
I am happy to take PRs regarding this if anyone has more to add. I will probably not address any issues unless there is an accompanying PR as this was intended to just show how to do notifications and nothing else.
References
Some links I have visited during this that may be useful if you are having any problems or may explain why some things are the way they are: