Adding Windows Notifications to WinUI Applications
The Windows App SDK provides developers with the ability to implement raw push notifications and app notifications in their WinUI apps. It’s important to understand the use case for each of these notification types. They have different implementations, and each has its own set of advantages and limitations. Push notifications can be surfaced to the user or received by the app to perform internal operations. App notifications, on the other hand, are used to communicate with the user. We’ll cover examples of when you would want to use a particular notification type and add an app notification to the My Media Collection sample application.
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- Understanding the different notification types in the Windows App SDK and the use case for each type
- Discovering how to leverage push notifications in a WinUI application
- Exploring how to use app notifications with...
