Smartphone notifications on desktop app

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Good Day,
is there a way to write a c# application of any type that will get notifications from your phone?
like text message recieved, or whatsapp or phone call, when your phone gets a notification, it must display in this c# application... probably via Bluetooth I would guess..

Ideally I would NOT like to write a mobile app that sits on the phone as well.

I have an iphone that I am working with at the moment, but ideally the goal is for it the be platform independent in the long run

Any thoughts, links, help?

What I have tried:

I have read up on bluetooth connections in c# and 32Feet looks to be one of the favorites for finding a bluetooth client that has already been paired with your computer, I have written a small sample app for myself to using it to connect, this app can find the paired phone and show its connection status...

Posted 12-Jul-17 20:45pm

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Richard MacCutchan 13-Jul-17 3:49am

It will depend on what information the phone sends via the bluetooth link.

Member 12967064 13-Jul-17 10:01am

What do mean by it depends on what information the phone sends via bluetooth?
Can the phone send information without an application running to push the said information?

but basically similar to toast notifications of windows phones, think IOS has UIAlert and android may use Java Toast not 100% sure about this, have only started research recently. so yea.. when your phone is locked next to you on the desk, and you get a notification lets for argument sake say text message is received, you get a notification on lock screen and you can often read part of the message (at least enough to see its importance) I want that specific notification to appear in my proposed application..

PushBullet seems to sort of have this functionality, but requires to be installed on both phone and compute, I want to try and avoid having to install an app or write an app for the phone

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