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Building real time applications for any client with Azure Mobile Services & Pusher
Because ZUMO can cater ANY client!
Azure Mobile Services is definitely one of the coolest technologies in the Azure family. One of the issues however, has been that it only has client libraries for Windows 8, iOS and Android, making it a bit more difficult for developers targeting other platforms (also web browsers!) to take advantage of its capabilities.
A while ago, I blogged about how to work around that – by using ZUMO REST API. However, you still didn’t have access to one of the nicest features of ZUMO for mobile devices – and that is push notifications. That changed recently, when ZUMO announced a partnership with Pusher, to provide push notifications for virtually any client.
Additionally, the team recently released another cool feature – scheduled tasks (cron jobs). Let’s see how you can use it all together to quickly build a realtime service.
More after the jump.
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