Message Center

Airship’s SDK provides a simple interface for managing the default 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.

The default message center can be displayed at any time
Airship.Instance.DisplayMessageCenter()
To display the inbox message
Airship.Instance.DisplayMessage("message-id")
To get the message count
var count = Airship.Instance.MessageCenterCount;
To get the unread message count
var count = Airship.Instance.MessageCenterUnreadCount;
To mark the message as read
Airship.Instance.MarkMessageRead("message-id")
To delete the message
Airship.Instance.DeleteMessage("message-id")

Getting inbox messages
var messages = Airship.Instance.InboxMessages;

An example of a Message Center inbox
/**
 * Sample Xamarin Forms App
 *
 * MessageCenterScreen: Contains the list of messages.
 */
 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.");
         }

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

     }
 }

/**
 * Sample Xamarin Forms App
 *
 * MessageCenterScreen: Contains the list of messages.
 */
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <ContentPage
     Title="{x:Static resources:AppResources.message_center_title}"
     xmlns:resources="clr-namespace:SampleApp"
     xmlns="http://xamarin.com/schemas/2014/forms"
     xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2009/xaml" x:Class="SampleApp.MessageCenterViewController">
     <ContentPage.Content>
         <ListView x:Name="listView" ItemSelected="listView_ItemSelected" RowHeight="90">
             <ListView.ItemTemplate>
                 <DataTemplate>
                     <ViewCell>
                         <StackLayout Orientation="Horizontal" Padding="20">
                                 <BoxView x:Name="isReadIndicator"
                                      CornerRadius="7"
                                      WidthRequest="14" HeightRequest="14">
                                     <BoxView.Triggers>
                                         <DataTrigger TargetType="BoxView" Binding="{Binding Unread}" Value="true">
                                             <Setter Property="BackgroundColor" Value="Green" />
                                         </DataTrigger>
                                         <DataTrigger TargetType="BoxView" Binding="{Binding Unread}" Value="false">
                                             <Setter Property="BackgroundColor" Value="Blue" />
                                         </DataTrigger>
                                     </BoxView.Triggers>
                                 </BoxView>
                             <StackLayout>
                                 <Label Text="{Binding Title}"/>
                                 <Label Text="{Binding SentDate, StringFormat='{0:MMMM dd, yyyy, hh:mm}'}" TextColor="Gray"/>
                             </StackLayout>
                         </StackLayout>
                     </ViewCell>
                 </DataTemplate>
             </ListView.ItemTemplate>
         </ListView>
     </ContentPage.Content>
 </ContentPage>

Override the message center display
Airship.Instance.OnMessageCenterDisplay += OnMessageCenterDisplay;

static void OnMessageCenterDisplay(object sender, MessageCenterEventArgs e)
{
    //Navigate to custom UI
}

Override the message center update
Airship.Instance.OnMessageCenterUpdated += OnMessageCenterUpdated;

static void OnMessageCenterUpdated(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    Console.WriteLine("onMessageCenterUpdated");
}

Look at our sample app for more details.