Hands-On Mobile Development with .NET Core

Transmitting notifications

Now that the user has registered a device, we can implement a send notification method on the server. We would like to support free text notifications, as well as templated messages with data. Let's begin:

1. Let's start by creating a base notification method that will define the destination and the message:

public class NotificationRequest {    public BaseNotificationMessage Message { get; set; }     public string Destination { get; set; } }

2. For the simple message scenario, the calling service module is not really aware of the target platform—it just defines a user and a message item. Therefore, we need to generate a message for all three platforms, hence covering all possible devices the user might have:

public class ...