Wp7 push notification to launch my app

Question

As far as I know, Ios and Android gcm are able to open an application when a push notification event arrives. For wp7, I only find samples on how to update tiles or display a message. But I need to display a bitmap in fullscreen. Is there a way to open my app when I send a push notification ?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Answer 1

If you send a Toast notification using the Notification mechanism, then tapping on the Toast will launch the application, you can then specify a page to navigate to within your application.

Take a look at the following for more information :

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh202967(v=vs.92).aspx

Answer 2

There is no way you can launch anything via a push notification on Windows Phone. Raw, toast and tile are the only acceptable types, none of which is able to invoke code execution outside the pre-defined boundaries (eg launch the app when the toast is tapped).

Since you are displaying an image, your best bet would be focusing on the tile updating mechanism . Remember, however, that there are no guarantees that the user will see the tile (unless pinned), or keep it on the home screen permanently.