Same Table, Notification Hub and server for two apps

Question

We got caught by Microsoft's abandonment of Silverlight and focus on UWP. This has ended up with us having to develop two dually focused apps (UWP and Silverlight), which has left us with two apps that cannot be bundled/packed together. We have therefore decided to have of the apps as a companion app.

Both apps use authentication, at present time it is with Microsoft authentication. The services used for authentication is of the type Azure App Service - Mobile. The services besides authentication also provides interfaces to a notification hub, blob storage and SQL storage.

The question is therefore is it possible to have one App Service - Mobile (not mobileservice), and authenticate two different apps using the same service? Additionally can the same Notification Hub be used to send notifications towards different apps?

Or is it needed that we create two different services for each application to facilitate the use of authentication and push messages. Then we can link the same database to the two App Service - Mobile ? But this would leave the issue of the notification hubs not having the same registrations ?

Answer 1

I dont think you can have more than one apps connected to one Azure mobile app. You can connect same app on different platforms but not multiple applications for same platform as Mobile app is designed to be an individual app back end. Check this feedback request. https://feedback.azure.com/forums/218849-notification-hubs/suggestions/3821272-push-notifications-for-multiple-apps