.NET 8 MAUI & Push notification: what to do?

Question

I'm creating an application with .NET 8 MAUI, and I like adding push notifications. Although I'm a big fan of Microsoft, the experience is quite frustrating.

It is more than 2 weeks that I tried to configure Azure Notification Hubs and paying the Azure support, I still can't configure the hub for Windows and Android doesn't seem working. So, at this point I tried other plugin but I have to ignore the Windows notification (sigh!).

I tried:

• FirebasePushNotificationPlugin but unfortunately this plugin doesn't have documentation and has an error at least with .NET8 and the error is

Could not find a part of the path 'C:\Users\enric.nuget\packages\xamarin.firebase.ios.installations\8.10.0.3\lib\net6.0-ios15.4\Firebase.Installations.resources\FirebaseInstallations.xcframework\ios-arm64_x86_64-simulator\FirebaseInstallations.framework\Headers\FirebaseInstallations-umbrella.h'.

• Plugin.FirebasePushNotification but unfortunately it doesn't seem that it works. I added all the code in the Android project and no notification from the Firebase portal.
• Plugin.Firebase but also this plugin has the issue with missing files and the error is

Could not find a part of the path 'C:\Users\enric.nuget\packages\xamarin.firebase.ios.installations\8.10.0.3\lib\net6.0-ios15.4\Firebase.Installations.resources\FirebaseInstallations.xcframework\ios-arm64_x86_64-simulator\FirebaseInstallations.framework\Headers\FirebaseInstallations-umbrella.h'.

• I followed the implementation of Vladislav Antonyuk but at the moment it is not working for me
• I read some comments on GitHub where Microsoft said that the push notification is embedded in MAUI but I can't find any further documentation

Just to be sure and clear, I tried to send test messages from the Firebase portal like in the following screenshot.

Is it possible to implement Push Notification in .NET 8 MAUI? How?

Answer 1

Try adding long path support in window. Check below link, after Enable Win32 Long Path, restart your machine and try again by adding / updating relevant nuget packages for .e.g xamarin.firebase.ios.installations.

The issue appears your path increased 256 character as in below error that says ...FirebaseInstallations-umbrella.h.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/nuget/reference/cli-reference/cli-ref-long-path

Could not find a part of the path 'C:\Users\enric.nuget\packages\xamarin.firebase.ios.installations\8.10.0.3\lib\net6.0-ios15.4\Firebase.Installations.resources\FirebaseInstallations.xcframework\ios-arm64_x86_64-simulator\FirebaseInstallations.framework\Headers\FirebaseInstallations-umbrella.h'.

Answer 2

To install Plugin.Firebase you need to install by PowerShell.

Try do this steps:

1- nuget locals all -clear; 2- dotnet add package Plugin.Firebase

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