This is an update blog to my earlier blog about Sending Apple iOS Push notifications using C#.
With that blog ā I introduced you to how to send push notification using Open Source library APNSharp, by the developer John Redth. Redth announced that library is already deprecated.
Redth came up with with another open source project called as PushSharp:,published under apache software foundation license.
PushSharp is a server-side library for sending Push Notifications to iOS (iPhone/iPad APNS), Android (C2DM and GCM – Google Cloud Message), Windows Phone, Windows 8, Amazon, Blackberry, and (soon) FirefoxOS devices!. Single library serves the purpose of sending push notifications to multiple platforms. Pretty decent isnāt it?
Here is the basic architecture:
Features of PUsHSHARP
- Supports sending push notifications for many platforms:
- Apple (APNS – iPhone, iPad, Mountain Lion)
- Android (GCM/C2DM – Phones/Tablets)
- Chrome (GCM)
- Amazon (ADM – Amazon Device Messaging)
- Windows Phone 7 / 7.5 / 8 (including FlipTile, CycleTile, and IconicTile Templates!)
- Windows 8
- Blackberry (BIS and BES via PAP)
- Firefox OS (Coming soon)
- Fluent API for constructing Notifications for each platform
- Auto Scaling of notification channels (more workers/connections are added as demand increases, and scaled down as it decreases)
Implementation using PushSharp is straight forward
Here’s some sample code: shared by Redth
//Create our push services broker
var push = new PushBroker();
//Registering the Apple Service and sending an iOS Notification
var appleCert = File.ReadAllBytes("ApnsSandboxCert.p12"));
push.RegisterAppleService(new ApplePushChannelSettings(appleCert, "pwd"));
push.QueueNotification(new AppleNotification()
.ForDeviceToken("DEVICE TOKEN HERE")
.WithAlert("Hello World!")
.WithBadge(7)
.WithSound("sound.caf"));
//Registering the GCM Service and sending an Android Notification
push.RegisterGcmService(new GcmPushChannelSettings("theauthorizationtokenhere"));
//Fluent construction of an Android GCM Notification
//IMPORTANT: For Android you MUST use your own RegistrationId here that gets generated within your Android app itself!
push.QueueNotification(new GcmNotification().ForDeviceRegistrationId("DEVICE REGISTRATION ID HERE")
.WithJson("{"alert":"Hello World!","badge":7,"sound":"sound.caf"}"));
You can get the Push Sharp for your .NET projects from below mentioned links:
Binaries from NuGet: https://www.nuget.org/packages/PushSharp
To install PushSharp, run the following command in the Package Manager Console
PM> Install-Package PushSharp
Source Code from GitHub: https://github.com/Redth/PushSharp
Documentation and Implementation Guides available at wiki page: https://github.com/Redth/PushSharp/wiki
Quick links to implementation guides
You can read my previous blogs here:
Sending Apple iOS Push notifications using C#
Apple Push Notifications Service API & C#
Nithin Mohan – A passionate hardcore application programmer, software architect, and technology evangelist with over 15 years of experience in Web, Mobile, and Cloud applications design and development.
