Azure Notification Hubs Blog
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Introducing flexible recovery region for Azure Notification Hubs
Flexible recovery region now in GA We are excited to announce that flexible recovery region for Azure Notification Hubs is now generally available (GA) for all customers. All tiers provide a flexible recovery region option, enabling you to choose from a list of supported regions. In regions with availability zones and no region pair, you can use flexible recovery to choose a failover region that provides resiliency in the event of a full region failure. Azure Notification Hubs is a scalable, reliable, and cost-effective service that enables you to send push notifications to millions of devices across platforms...
FCM v1 Migration Steps (Preview)
Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) legacy API will be deprecated by Jul 2024. The ANH team is preparing so customers can begin migrating from Legacy HTTP protocol to FCM v1. Customers may start this migration process March 1, 2024 and will need to be migrated by June 2024. No action is required at this time, further instructions will be made available in Feb 2024. Concepts for FCM v1: To migrate from FCM legacy to FCM v1, here’s what you can expect: Provide credentials for FCM v1: You will need to provide your FCM v1 credentials to set up notifications. Update Client App to start registering as FCMv1 device...
New high availability features for Azure Notification Hubs (Preview)
We are excited to announce that the new high availability features Availability Zones and flexible disaster recovery are now available for preview for your ANH push notifications. Azure Notification Hubs currently offers default paired secondary regions that act as a backup in case of a regional outage. If the primary region becomes unavailable, ANH will automatically fail over to the secondary region and resume sending push notifications to your devices. What is high availability? High availability is a key requirement for any modern cloud application. High availability is the ability of a system to remain ope...
Migrating Notification Hubs from FCM Legacy HTTP to FCM v1
Update as of June 2023: Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) is a service that, among other things, facilitates developers sending push notifications to Google Play supported Android devices. ANH currently communicates with FCM using the Legacy HTTP protocol. FCM v1 is an updated API that offers more features and capabilities. Google announced that they will be deprecating FCM Legacy HTTP and will stop supporting it on June 20, 2024. Therefore, developers who use Azure Notification Hubs to communicate with Google Play supported Android devices today, will need to migrate their applications and notification payloads to...
Targeting Random Users
Computer systems are notorious for being able to do many precise operations quickly, but struggling to do things at random. Imagine you want to A/B test two different notifications on a small set of your user base before broadcasting a promotional offer to everyone. How would you choose two random subsets of your users? How would you make sure that there was no intersection between those subsets? Finally, how would you exclude the users whom were tested on from the later notification so that they didn't see the same promotional offer twice? Using Azure Notification Hubs tag expressions, and one simple technique, ...
Announcing availability of end-to-end Azure Notification Hubs samples using React native
Today, we are super excited to announce the availability of Azure Notification Hubs samples, to better demonstrate the awesome capabilities of Azure Notification Hubs end to end using react native on multiple platforms such as Android and iOS.
Bintray Sunset
Bintray Sunset Since Azure Notification Hubs published its first SDKs to JFrog's Bintray in April of 2016, many other Azure services have joined us and started publishing Java SDKs. However, this led to some divergence, with other SDKs by-and-large being published on Maven Central. This has long been a papercut we've wanted to fix, but without any trouble forcing urgency on the matter. However on February 3rd, 2021, JFrog announced that they will begin shutting down services that are currently used to host our SDKs. This has provided the catalyst necessary to move our SDKs to Maven Central. What's Moving? Ava...
Use Templates Effectively
Every time development of a new mobile app starts, one of the first questions that needs to be answered is, "How are we going to support both iOS and Android?" Deciding on a technology to build the client-side app logic and UI alone is complicated enough, extending client specific knowledge into your backend is only going to exacerbate that pain. Using Azure Notification Hubs' templates, you can let each client maintain full control of how notifications will look, protecting your backend server from needing to know platform details. Define Personalization on the Client Let's say you're writing an application f...
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