I set up the Azure environment, with the Notifications Hub and a Mobile Backend. It works perfectly and simply with the "Test Send" feature, where I receive a notification on my phone, and can dismiss it or click on it to open the app. All I am looking for is a feature similar to this, but with production capabilities. I don't want to setup more infrastructure, and write all this code, just to send the most basic of push notifications, so I am wondering how this may be done in the Microsoft Azure portal? Thanks!
Edit 1: to anyone struggling with the same problem, Microsoft also offers a service called Visual Studio App Center, which has the extavt functionality I desired, and is super easy to implement. For some reason it was listed very highly during my searches, so I never knew it existed.
I am afraid that there is ony "Test Send" feature in Azure portal. You need to accomplish this by using code or rest api. Normally, you would send notifications using a backend server. For some cases, you might want to be able to send push notifications directly from the client application.