Problem sending notification message to Android and iOS devices with azure messaging dll

Question

We are a Bizspark customer andfor the past two days we are facing problem in Azure Notification Hub. We were trying to
send push notifications to Android devices registered in "seexxxxxxwams" - An Azure Mobile Service in our account and no
registered android devices are receiving the notifications. When we tried to debug it via Notification Hub in Azure Portal  (seexxxxxxwamshub
- Notification hub in our account), the results are showing that the notifications are sent to the devices. However, the devices
are not receiving the notifications which was receiving before.  
Kindly let us know whether we are missing something in our code (Please find the code below) or is there any problem in Azure Notification
Hub (for Android GCM). 
Thanks.
using System.Text;
using Android.App;
using Android.Content;
using Android.Util;
using Gcm.Client;
using Android.Support.V4.App;
//VERY VERY VERY IMPORTANT NOTE!!!!
// Your package name MUST NOT start with an uppercase letter.
// Android does not allow permissions to start with an upper case letter
// If it does you will get a very cryptic error in logcat and it will not be obvious why you are crying!
// So please, for the love of all that is kind on this earth, use a LOWERCASE first letter in your Package Name!!!!
using ByteSmith.WindowsAzure.Messaging;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System;
[assembly: Permission(Name = "@[email protected]_MESSAGE")]
[assembly: UsesPermission(Name = "@[email protected]_MESSAGE")]
[assembly: UsesPermission(Name = "com.google.android.c2dm.permission.RECEIVE")]
//GET_ACCOUNTS is only needed for android versions 4.0.3 and below
[assembly: UsesPermission(Name = "android.permission.GET_ACCOUNTS")]
[assembly: UsesPermission(Name = "android.permission.INTERNET")]
[assembly: UsesPermission(Name = "android.permission.WAKE_LOCK")]
namespace seeMuscatAndroidApp
//You must subclass this!
[BroadcastReceiver(Permission= Gcm.Client.Constants.PERMISSION_GCM_INTENTS)]
[IntentFilter(new string[] { Gcm.Client.Constants.INTENT_FROM_GCM_MESSAGE }, Categories = new string[] { "@PACKAGE_NAME@" })]
[IntentFilter(new string[] { Gcm.Client.Constants.INTENT_FROM_GCM_REGISTRATION_CALLBACK }, Categories = new string[] { "@PACKAGE_NAME@"
[IntentFilter(new string[] { Gcm.Client.Constants.INTENT_FROM_GCM_LIBRARY_RETRY }, Categories = new string[] { "@PACKAGE_NAME@"
public class PushHandlerBroadcastReceiver : GcmBroadcastReceiverBase<GcmService>
//IMPORTANT: Change this to your own Sender ID!
//The SENDER_ID is your Google API Console App Project ID.
//  Be sure to get the right Project ID from your Google APIs Console.  It's not the named project ID that appears in the Overview,
//  but instead the numeric project id in the url: 
//  where 785671162406 is the project id, which is the SENDER_ID to use!
public static string[] SENDER_IDS = new string[] { Constants.SenderID };
public const string TAG = "GoogleCloudMessaging";
[Service] //Must use the service tag
public class GcmService : GcmServiceBase
public static string RegistrationID { get; private set; }
private NotificationHub Hub { get; set; }
        Context _generalContext;
public GcmService() : base(PushHandlerBroadcastReceiver.SENDER_IDS) 
Log.Info(PushHandlerBroadcastReceiver.TAG, "GcmService() constructor"); 
protected override async void OnRegistered (Context context, string registrationId)
Log.Verbose(PushHandlerBroadcastReceiver.TAG, "GCM Registered: " + registrationId);
RegistrationID = registrationId;
            _generalContext = context;
//createNotification("GcmService Registered...", "The device has been Registered, Tap to View!");
Hub = new NotificationHub(Constants.NotificationHubPath, Constants.ConnectionString);
try
await Hub.UnregisterAllAsync(registrationId);
catch (Exception ex)
Debug.WriteLine(ex.Message);
Debugger.Break();
            var tags = new List<string>() { main.userCountry, main.userCity, main.userLatitude, main.userLongitude, main.userPhoneMake,
main.userPhoneModel, main.userPhoneName, main.userPhoneAndroidVersion, main.userAppVersion,main.userUID};
            Console.WriteLine("///////////HUB TAGS///////////////////");
            Console.WriteLine("Country:" + main.userCountry);
            Console.WriteLine("City:" + main.userCity);
            Console.WriteLine("Latitude:" + main.userLatitude);
            Console.WriteLine("Longitude:"+main.userLongitude);
            Console.WriteLine("Make:" + main.userPhoneMake);
            Console.WriteLine("Model:" + main.userPhoneModel);
            Console.WriteLine("Phone Name:" + main.userPhoneName);
            Console.WriteLine("Android Version:" + main.userPhoneAndroidVersion);
            Console.WriteLine("App version:" + main.userAppVersion);
            Console.WriteLine("User ID:" + main.userUID);
            Console.WriteLine("///////////END OF HUB TAGS///////////////////");
try
var hubRegistration = await Hub.RegisterNativeAsync(registrationId, tags);                
Debug.WriteLine("RegistrationId:" + hubRegistration.RegistrationId);
catch (Exception ex)
Debug.WriteLine("#########$$$$Error:"+ex.Message); 
protected override void OnUnRegistered (Context context, string registrationId)
Log.Verbose(PushHandlerBroadcastReceiver.TAG, "GCM Unregistered: " + registrationId);
protected override void OnMessage (Context context, Intent intent)
Log.Info(PushHandlerBroadcastReceiver.TAG, "GCM Message Received!");
            Debug.WriteLine("/********* GCM Received ****************");
var msg = new StringBuilder();
if (intent != null && intent.Extras != null)
foreach (var key in intent.Extras.KeySet())
msg.AppendLine(key + "=" + intent.Extras.Get(key).ToString());
//Store the message
var prefs = GetSharedPreferences(context.PackageName, FileCreationMode.Private);
var edit = prefs.Edit();
edit.PutString("last_msg", msg.ToString());
edit.Commit();
string message = intent.Extras.GetString("message");
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(message))
createNotification("New todo item!", "Todo item: " + message);
return;
string msg2 = intent.Extras.GetString("msg");
            string notititle = intent.Extras.GetString("notititle");
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(msg2))
createNotification(notititle, msg2);
return;
protected override bool OnRecoverableError (Context context, string errorId)
Log.Warn(PushHandlerBroadcastReceiver.TAG, "Recoverable Error: " + errorId);
return base.OnRecoverableError (context, errorId);
protected override void OnError (Context context, string errorId)
Log.Error(PushHandlerBroadcastReceiver.TAG, "GCM Error: " + errorId);
void createNotification(string title, string desc)
            NotificationCompat.Builder builder = new NotificationCompat.Builder(this);
            Intent uiIntent = new Intent();
            uiIntent.SetClass(this, typeof(dealsview));
            uiIntent.PutExtra("contentID", "todaydeals");
            uiIntent.PutExtra("contentName", "");
            uiIntent.PutExtra("isSale", "");
            const int pendingIntentId = 0;
            PendingIntent pendingIntent = PendingIntent.GetActivity(this, pendingIntentId, uiIntent, PendingIntentFlags.OneShot);
            var notification = builder.SetContentIntent(pendingIntent).SetSmallIcon(Resource.Drawable.Icon).SetAutoCancel(true).SetContentTitle(title).SetContentText(desc).Build();
            var notificationManager = GetSystemService(Context.NotificationService) as NotificationManager;
            notificationManager.Notify(1, notification);

Answer 1

Hi Anpe83,
TL;DR: The answer: Currently, no.
As we speak, there is RMS Sharing app for all mobile platforms you mentioned. RMS Sharing App lets you open any file type that is a .pfile (generic file created by RMS Sharing App on your PC). But this is not a granular protection and policy enforcement
- you can think about this way of protecting as a .zip file that has been password protected. So once you "unzip" the pfile with RMS Sharing App - you can do whatever you want (open in a native mobile app, forward, edit, copy, delete, etc) with that file. 
Now, RMS Sharing App lets you protect pictures only on your mobile devices which I assume you will not be a feature used very often.
On the other hand Microsoft has published Office suite (Word, Excel, etc) for iOS devices (iPhone and iPad).
Currently (this is the key word here) those are NOT RMS enlighted yet, so f.e. no word document that is RMS protected can be opened with your Office suite for iOs. I also know that Microsoft is preparing an update for iOS devices in the nereast
future to make Office suites (including OWA app) RMS-aware.
PS. For the current time being there are some third parties that extend RMS capabilities to your mobile device platforms. You can also wait few months (unfortunately cannot promise that) for RMS enlighted Microsoft apps for iOS devices.
PS2. If you haven't heard you can also set RMS Sharing App to work withi your ADRMS which is onprem (not only with RMS in the cloud). For those you need some cool toys: Windows 2012 R2, ADFS 3.0 and RMS Mobile Device Extension.
Hope this answers your question.
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