Howdy folks,
I'm playing around with xamarin for vs and I'm wondering what the proper way to do push notifications should be? I'm gravitating towards using AWS SNS and I found on github an AWS SDK for xamarin, but I'm wondering whether anyone has tried it or any other ways to do push, because I hear it's generally a big pain in the butt to get PCL and SNS to work properly, so I'm looking for a way to save me some head banging 'gainst the wall... At some point I was even considering starting at boot a service thread that would poll a server for status and should there be anything new it'd create a local notification, which I agree is not the slickest design of em all, but would've worked, if only there was a way to start a thread at startup on iphone and WP the way you can do it in android..
I still haven't started because I wonna have my concept clear in order to reuse most of my code and don't have to rewrite 60% of it for each platform. All guidance and advices are utmost welcome.
Cheers,
V.