Thanks.
From the description on their site…
Azure Notification Hubs provide an easy-to-use, horizontally-scalable push module that lets you send notifications to any platform (iOS, Android, Windows, Kindle, Baidu, etc.) from any back-end (cloud-based or local). Notification Hubs are suitable for both corporate and private customer scenarios. Here are some example scenarios:
- Send notification of breaking news to millions of low-latency recipients
- Send location-based vouchers to interested customer groups
- Send event notifications to users or groups for media / sports / financial / gaming applications
- Push transfer of advertising content to applications to engage and encourage customers to buy
- Notify users about corporate events such as new messages and work items
- Sending codes for multilevel authentication
it seems that this is a solution to broadcast notifications to a group of users on varying platforms. For example someone may want to broadcast a severe thunderstorm warning to thousands of users who have different devices.
The problem I have is that when somebody calls me on Skype, Skype pops up a notification on my Windows 10 PC, but if I'm not staring at the PC I don't see the notification and I miss the Skype call.
I envision an application running constantly on my Windows 10 PC that recognizes notifications, parses the notification to identify the ones from Skype, then performs some action (flashes a bulb).
I believe this requires the application running on my Windows 10 PC to have a "notification listener" that spies on all notifications and does something if it sees one arrive from Skype.
I wonder if this is possible to do using B4J. I have seen a Microsoft Visual Studio example that uses UWP and their notification listener.
Please correct me if I'm missing the proper information from the site you posted.
Barry.