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Adding Push Notifications to Your iPhone Applications Using RemObjects SDK (Xcode) - RemObjects Wiki. We have just published a full implementation for providing Push Notifications (APS) support for iPhone clients using RemObjects SDK, with minimal work required. The current implementation is provided for servers written in .NET, although it should be easily adaptable to serve as a reference for implementing a similar functionality for RO/Delphi. What are Push Notifications? To conserve battery power, as well as reduce CPU load and network traffic, the iPhone does not allow applications to stay active in the background and keep communicating with servers. This makes traditional approaches for real-time notifications, such as RemObjects SDK's event sinks, unfeasible, but is an understandable limitation given that users expect their iPhone batteries to last a long time and want to keep tabs on (sometimes metered) network traffic.

What does ApplePushProvider do? They provide a central "device manager" to keep track and persist information about registered devices on disk. Authentication See Also. Apple Push Notification Services in iOS 6 Tutorial: Part 1/2. Learn how to add Push Notifications into your iPhone app! Update 4/12/2013: Fully updated for iOS 6 (original post by Matthijs Hollemans, update by Ali Hafizji). In iOS, apps can’t do a lot in the background. Apps are only allowed to do limited set of activities so battery life is conserved.

But what if something interesting happens and you wish to let the user know about this, even if they’re not currently using your app? For example, maybe the user received a new tweet, their favorite team won the game, or their dinner is ready. Luckily, Apple has provided a solution to this. And when an event of interest occurs, the server-side component can send the app a push notification! Display a short text messagePlay a brief soundSet a number in a badge on the app’s icon You can combine these however you see fit; for example, play a sound and set the badge but not display a message. In this first part, you’ll learn how to configure your app to receive push notifications and receive a test message. How To Create Realtime Notifications For HTML5 Apps | Pusher.

There are few apps nowadays for which realtime notifications are not a core feature. From friend requests to pull requests, keeping users updated is key to their experience. Users want to be in the know about the content that interests them, and receive current information without the need for a browser refresh. It improves peer interactions between friends and colleagues, increases social reach, and triggers important conversations that could be invaluable to your app experience. In this tutorial, we will show you how simple it is to add realtime notifications to your web or mobiles apps with Pusher. What We’ll Cover A user will perform an action that will create a notification, and send it to the server.

Pusher Terminology The realtime web is sometimes referred to as “the evented web”. Events take place on something: on a table in a database as a new record is created, updated or deleted; on a particular part of the user interface. Channels Events The Tutorial Step 0: Setting Up <? What Now? Sending push notifications to a device | Appery.io Dev Center. What are we going to build? In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to set up push notifications. Note: to test your app you need to build the binary and install it on your device. Before you begin Tutorial level: advanced. Prerequisites: at least one intermediate tutorial. Creating a new app Create a new app in the app builder. Configuring Push 1. 2. 3. Device info about where the app is installed will be saved in the Devices collection of the selected database, as soon as the device is running the app.

Switch to “Settings” and check all three items: “Push sound”. This means that each of these checked items will happen when a new push notification arrives. Configuring the push Depending on your device and OS, you’ll have to initialize Android or iOS settings, or both. Android 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. iOS 1. 2. Note: Bundle ID shouldn’t have a wild card character, otherwise you cannot configure push notification properties. 3. Assigning push notifications Build the following UI: 1. Push notifications | Appery.io Dev Center. The Appery.io, the push notifications feature allows you to send push messages to users who have installed your app.

Note: To send push notifications, the app must be installed on the device (PhoneGap app). Quickstart Note: If you are new to sending push notifications, please start with this tutorial: getting started with push notifications. To learn more about push notifications follow this tutorial: sending push notifications to a device. Sending push notifications To send push notifications, you should turn the feature on via the Push Notifications tab by checking the “Enable push notifications” checkbox: Once you’ve turned on the push notifications, you’ll be able to choose a database to link the app with: Linking the database is necessary, because all the devices are stored in the Devices collection in the appropriate database.

You can unlink database and apps, but all the data in the Devices collection will be cleared. Once the database is linked, Send push notification view opens: 1. 2. Home :: PushBots. APNS – Apple Push Notification Service | iOSappLove. Apple Push Notification Services Tutorial: Part 3/3 Now we need a MySQL database to store all user information so that we know where to send the Push Notifications! Build up database to receive user information -> Create a database and a user for that database. -> Update the apns.php file and sendMessage.php file with the database information (username, pwd, database name, host, etc.) We need three tables: “apns_devices”, “apns_device_history” and “apns_messages”. We will actually need only “apns_devices” and “apns_device_history”, but since this tutorial is based on Easy APNS, we must also include everyting and consider all dependencies…! Apple Push Notification Services Tutorial: Part 2/3 We now have to generate some files that are needed to communicate with Apple’s pushnotification servers: Generate cert & key files used by your php script to comm. with APNS Remember the “aps_production.cer” file we downloaded?

Apple Push Notification Services Tutorial: Part 1/3.