Mini-Lesson: Push Notifications and Live Tiles

Frédéric HarperDeveloper Evangelist @ Microsoft Canada

@fharper | outofcomfortzone.net

Push Notifications and Live Tiles

Push Notifications offer developers a way to send timely information to their applications even when they are not around

+ Windows phone has the unique ability to provide the

end user glanceable access to the information they care most about, via Live Tiles

Push Notification UX Components

Toast notifications Tile notifications

Default tile pinned to start Count, Title, Background

Raw notifications

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Title

Background

Push Notification Architecture

HTTP Post to URI with payloadPush URI request/response

Push enabled application

Push client service

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Push client/server negotiation

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Push URI to Cloud Service 4

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Push notification to device6

Cloud Service

MPNS

Windows Phone 7

Send to WP7 Link Tile Link Toast

AlphaJax Turn Tile Move Toast

Seattle Traffic Map Traffic Tile

Scenarios/Popular Applications

Weather Apps Weather Tile Warning Toast

Chess by Post Turn Tile Move Toast

Beezz Unread Tile Direct Toast

There are hundreds and hundreds of Push apps in Marketplace!

Live Tiles – Local Tile API Local tile updates (these are *not* push)

Full control of all properties when your app is in the foreground or background

Calorie counter, sticky notes MultiTile!

Create/Update/Delete Launches directly to page/experience

Application TileLaunches main app experience

Secondary TileLaunches world news page

Secondary TileLaunches local news page

Back of tile updates Full control of all properties when your app

is in the foreground or background Content, Title, Background

Flips from front to back at random interval Smart logic to make flips asynchronous

Live Tiles – Local Tile API Continued…

Title

Content

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BackgroundContent string is bigger

DemoLocal Tile Implementation

Questions

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Frédéric HarperDeveloper Evangelist @ Microsoft Canada

fredh@microsoft.com@fharper

webnotwar.caoutofcomfortzone.net

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