在 Xamarin Forms 和 Azure 中安排推送通知

Question

I'm pretty new with Azure. I set up a notification hub in combination with a Xamarin Forms app, this works well with (silent) test notifications. Now I have to schedule these notifications, actually infinite, two times an hour. I can't really find any good documentation about this (except some basic information https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/notification-hubs/notification-hubs-send-push-notifications-scheduled ). What is the best way to accomplish this? Is there a direct way from Azure? Or do I have to use WebJobs to call an API that resets the notifications every 7 days (maximum if I understood correctly?).

Answer 1

From what I can find you can't schedule anything recurring, you can schedule unlimited, but there is no way to specify a recurrence pattern. With that knowledge you probably want to have some other system in place that just schedules new notifications.

This could be as simple as an Azure Functions that can actually be triggered by using a cron pattern and let that Function schedule the new notification(s). Other ways are of course just as good, but I think this might be the easiest and cost effective one