Push notifications

[This article is for Windows 8.x and Windows Phone 8.x developers writing Windows Runtime apps. If you’re developing for Windows 10, see the latest documentation]

Send messages to your apps using push notifications.

Your Windows Store app can subscribe to a service that sends out notifications such as weather or news alerts, alarms or stock prices. Your app can respond to the notification message by updating tiles, the lock screen, or tile badges. As with iOS's implementation, the notifications are generated by your own server, or the server working on your behalf. Windows Phone 8.1 devices also have the action center available to display important information: see Managing toast notifications in action center.

One way to generate push notifications is to make use of Microsoft Azure Mobile Service, as detailed in this example: Event Buddy Sample - Storage, Auth and Push Notifications with Mobile Services.

Related topics

Topics for iOS devs

Resources for iOS devs

Windows 8 controls for iOS devs

Windows 8 cookbook for iOS devs

Tiles and badges topics

Tiles, badges, and notifications (Windows Runtime apps)

Managing toast notifications in action center

Tiles and badges

Guidelines and checklist for push notifications (Windows Store apps)

Quickstart: Sending a push notification (Windows Store apps using C#/VB/C++ and XAML)