Is anybody sending out text messages to user's phones with AppMaker? If so, would you mind posting your preferred solution that has been tried and works with AppMaker/Google Cloud?
Thanks!
Neither App Maker or App Script or Cloud Platform provide SMS services as first party.
So, you can to make market research, choose service that suits your needs best and then if you have any hurdles making it friends with App Maker come back here and ask more specific question, for instance how to authenticate 3rd party service.
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I have a mobile app that does two things. The first one is to use Firebase to implement a chat. On the other side, the apps, uses a REST API to retrieve some info from a database and do some writes on it. Simple as that. The app provides a login system: two text fields and a button. The user provides an email address and a password then I used the standard Firebase function to do the login using signInWithEmailAndPassword(). The thing is that I should use the same credentials to do the login using the REST API to access the other database. At first I decided to do the call to Firebase and to the REST API in the same function. One other possible solution could be a web service. I'll explain how. A web services written in Python, PHP or JavaScript generates a JWT token that is sent to the mobile app after the user asks to sign in. I'm pretty sure that this is possible like shown here: https://firebase.google.com/docs/auth/admin. The latter seems too over-complicated to me. Now, the question is. Can someone suggest a solution, the most simple one, that can be used is a scenario like this? Thanks all in advance.
I am working on a mobile application, this application has some features like users can follow each others, adding comments or reviews, like something .. etc.
So the requirement is we have notifications icon in the app, when the user click on it a list of notification will show up, taken in consider those notifications should be real time.
Many things comes to my mind will reviewing this feature, like using firebase to send the notification, or I can develop internal notification service for this purpose.
The question is what do you suggest guys, do you think using firebase is a good idea for such case? or there is something else you recommend for such case
Thank you in advance.
You can try signalR more manageable than firebase but you need to know programing to manage signalR
My boss has charged me with the task of finding how to integrate WeChat into our photobooth's "Total Share" section.
Our photobooths work under windows and their software is a mix of Java and a PHP web API installed locally, that then connects to a web service.
The intention is to give the user the option to, when their picture is done, get a copy of it via WeChat (I guess that by introducing it's phone number)
Through my searches I've found a WeChat JS-SDK, but that seems to connect sites you are watching on your phone with your actual WeChat app so it doesn't work in my case.
The other source I have found is the Official Account Admin Platform, but I'm not really sure if this would allow me to do what I need. As far as I've seen, the Official Account can send messages in response to a trigger (that would work for me, send a message when the user clicks on the button), but it also seems to need that they "subscribe" (in a way) to the Official Account, and secondly I'm not sure how can this be automatized.
Especial mention:
I'm a junior developer, so API integration is a bridge I haven't crossed yet, and as such I'm utterly lost.
Is it possible to get the functionality I require? If so, what are the steps to do it?
You don't need to make a fully fleshed tutorial to write an answer, just knowing in what direction should I go, and maybe some possible caveats that more experienced developers may be able to foresee, would be great.
Thanks.
This is kinda open ended question. Just wanted to get some comments / views / pointers on my situation. Before I start with my question I would like to disclose that I have never worked on backend before.
I am trying to build backend for an iOS app that creates user account based on phone number, take some basic information from user such as first name, last name and address. Based on that information I am planning give custom suggestion of weather / whats around etc.
Now for authentication I am using Digits from twitter (https://docs.fabric.io/ios/digits/index.html). But I am not sure how to do whole user management as such. Example collecting more information assigned to same user who was authenticated using phone number.
I thought of using Google's Firebase and Stormpath for user management but they seem to have there own authentication flow. Is there a way to combine either of these with Digits?
Any comments / pointer will be highly appreciated.
I work at Stormpath on our iOS SDK. Unfortunately, we don't have an integration with Digits or phone number based login at the moment, although it's on the roadmap. While it's technically possible to integrate them, for a casual project, I'd suggest using Facebook / Google Login.
Digits is really cool and useful, but Digits' integration on the server side unfortunately doesn't come with many examples, and may be difficult for you to understand if you haven't done it before. Facebook / Google login is a bit easier to implement (or even Facebook's AccountKit for phone number auth).
For using Stormpath to build a backend + mobile app, I've written a set of tutorials you can use to do Facebook or Google login.
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I am looking through all docs about Apple's APN, but I guess I am not getting a simple question that I need answered quickly. If I am setting up a Push Notification provider to interface with APNs, and I just want to send a message to John Doe, how do I get his Apple Device Id or token to send just to him? Does my provider server application have to keep track of tokens and user names as my iPhone app is installed on different devices? Or is there a method or API for providers to query Apple to get this Device ID or token so that the message only goes to John? And if so, what do I use to ask Apple, does Apple know about "John Doe" as a user of my app?
I realize these answers are in the docs somewhere, but I need this specific questions answered quickly, so any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.
Brian
Does my provider server application have to keep track of tokens and user names as my iPhone app is installed on different devices.
Yes, it's your responsibility to receive the device token from each device where your app is installed, and to associate this data with whatever user information your app collects.