I have an application for for iOS, Android and Windows mobile.I want to send notifications to the application. AFAIK as someone new to this, I think that I need to send the notifications from my server to GCM server for Android and APNS for iphone, I have no idea for windows.
I was hoping if I can send the notifications directly to the phone (setting up a XMPP server , what the IM messenger usually use (JABBER,EJABBERD etc.)) without going to APNS of GCM .
EDIT : The application is an enterprise application so some customers don't want to share aur route their data across GCM or APNS servers.
Is that possible, please guide me to the same .
Thanks.
Take a look at https://github.com/Redth/PushSharp, It's a pushnotification service library for Windows, IOS and Android
Push notifications for Windows Phone: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsphone/develop/ff402558(v=vs.105).aspx
Or you can use a service like Parse.com that allows you to manage push notifications for all he platforms using one API.
The library does that for you, you first need to do some configuration Check here.
Look a the samples.
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We are developing step by step game and need to send a notification to all players of current game when someone made his turn. We have a REST server that uses jersey + jackson implementation.
We know that it is possible to use Google Cloud Messaging for this purpose, however it doesn't support windows phone platform (we want to support Android, iOS, Windows Phone). Yes, Microsoft has their own server, but it requires to learn API of 2 services. Also, we found that server sent events protocol exists that can help us.
Is it good idea to use SSE (on all mobile platforms) instead of push notifications or there are some better solutions?
Thanks.
Using SSE is a bad usage for your requirement, as it will only work when your app is running, no notifications will be received when your app is closed.
You should use the notification system of each plateform you target (GMC for Andorid, Apple Push Service for ios, etc.)
Each device needs to register to the notification server and then you can send notifications to registered devices.
Since your targetting multiple plateforms, it would be easier to use a third party service that will do the registering and message dispatching to all your targetted plateforms through a simple API.
As suggested by Rahul Mathur, Parse is a known and reliable provider. Other possibilities include AWS SNS, Urban Airship, PushWoosh, and a lot more !
I suggest you to use parse as it is easy to implement
For android : https://parse.com/tutorials/android-push-notifications
For iOS : https://parse.com/tutorials/ios-push-notifications
You can also customise your php script on parse console.
I'm trying to create application for Android and iOS and, i want to use push notification on both the application. I'm going to have a server app that will be sending the notification.
but i am trying to APNS and Parse SDK it's common to use ,but i want GCM through push notifications on iOS ,can you please how can it possible ,any such information about GCM to iOS push notifications ,i am googling but i want some suggestions for GCM through iOS device notifications.Can you help me.thank you.
There is very good descriptive instructions in Google Cloud Messaging for iOS guide. It shows whole flow from registration of device token to receive push from server with code example.
After go through above guide, you may go for Setting up a GCM Client App on iOS and you are almost done to use GCM with iOS application
Update: GCM now supports IOS. See Grigo´s comment.
GCM is Android specific. If you want to avoid dealing with 2 different services for IOS and Android, you can use something like Amazon SNS for example. SNS now supports pushing cloud notifications to Android, IOS and Windows devices via the AWS Mobile SDK.
Assuming my application is based on HTML5/Jquery mobile (Cross platform web app),
How is it possible to create push notifications for Android/iOS ?
Also, does it include developing different "notifications engine" for
each device? (in other words: Do I need to implement two different background processes for each type of device?)
I'd be really glad to get a full answer/references to my conflict.
I have searched for the forum's previous answers but it seems like the threads are quite old so i preferred opening my own question.
GCM is the Google Cloud Messaging Service for Android, while APNS is the push notification service for iOS, both of them are very similar.
If you're already using html5 and jQuery, I would suggest you to use Phonegap which is a framework that allows you to create mobile apps using only html5 css3 javascript(jQuery) it was very useful for me and they've a push notifications plugin which works for Android and iOS.
Be sure to check Phonegap and Phonegap Build (which is a very interesting service)
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Apple has Apple Push Notification Service (APNS) to push out alerts.
More details at
https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/NetworkingInternet/Conceptual/RemoteNotificationsPG/Chapters/ApplePushService.html.
Google offers a comparable Google Cloud Messaging Service (GCM).
Details at http://developer.android.com/google/gcm/index.html. UPDATE: GCM does support iOS as a client, so can be used for both Android and iOS, with some work. (Technically, it will be an APNS when it reaches the iOS device.)
2) Not sure I understand what you mean by "background processes", If you are referring to backend service/originator of notifications,then the service needs to be able to communicate i with both the Apple APNS or Google CDM using the interfaces supported by these services and send out alerts in appropriate format. If you are looking for a third party service for sending out push notifications, you can checkout UrbanAirship or Parse which can send notifications to either platform.
I have a rails server and a backend. Is it possible to send a push message using my rails server to both iPhone and android app?
Yes, it is possible. Here are gems that I used recently in my projects: Android push service and Apple push service
They are well documented so you should not face big troubles about setup.
I created a gem in order to create a central push notifications, it supports iOS and Android at the moment, but i will add more platforms.
Maybe this will help you
here is the link: https://github.com/NicosKaralis/pushmeup
Try using grocer gem for ios push notifications. Thats pretty easy to setup and get going.
I need to add the ability to send push notifications out to users who have our app installed (yet to go to market).
I guess I will need to install a phonegap plugin that will look for updates on our server (or could be triggered from our server) but I'm struggling to find a good approach.
I have seen this:
https://github.com/saileshmittal/phonegap-system-notification-plugin/tree/master/android-statusbar-notificaion
It allows phonegap to send a notification, but I don't know how I could send a remote message to the script to trigger a message.
C2DM is deprecated and GCM ( Google Cloud Messaging) is used to implement your push notifications for Android App.
In Android the technology of push notifications is called C2DM. Here is a tutorial for this.