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Xamarin Message Center

Airship’s SDK provides a simple interface for managing the Message Center within your application.

Airship Message Center is a place in your app where you can display persistent rich messages, including HTML, video, etc. The messages are hosted by Airship, and are typically displayed in standard inbox-style within your app.

An example of a custom Message Center inbox as an Xamarin component
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using Xamarin.Forms;

using UrbanAirship.NETStandard;
using UrbanAirship.NETStandard.MessageCenter;

namespace SampleApp  
{

  public partial class MessageCenterViewController : ContentPage 
  {

    public MessageCenterViewController() 
    {
      InitializeComponent();
    }

    protected override void OnAppearing() 
    {
      var messages = Airship.Instance.InboxMessages;
      listView.ItemsSource = messages;
    }

    void listView_ItemSelected(System.Object sender, Xamarin.Forms.SelectedItemChangedEventArgs e)
    {
      var message = e.SelectedItem as Message;
      var messagePage = new MessagePage();
      messagePage.MessageId = message.MessageId;
      messagePage.LoadStarted += onLoadStarted;
      messagePage.Loaded += onLoaded;
      messagePage.Closed += onClosed;
      messagePage.LoadFailed += onLoadFailed;
      Navigation.PushAsync(messagePage);
    }

    private void onLoadStarted(object sender, MessageLoadStartedEventArgs e)
    {
      Console.WriteLine("onLoadStarted was reached.");
    }

    private void onLoaded(object sender, MessageLoadedEventArgs e)
    {
      Console.WriteLine("onLoaded was reached.");
    }

    private void onClosed(object sender, MessageClosedEventArgs e)
    {
      Console.WriteLine("onClosed was reached.");
      Navigation.PopAsync();
    }

    private void onLoadFailed(object sender, MessageLoadFailedEventArgs e)
    {
      Console.WriteLine("onLoadFailed was reached.");
    }

  }

}

Look at our sample  app for more details.