i need to add push notifications to the "App" the "App" is cross platform that is Android and iOS , im doing to server side its not a problem , but what is my problem is i don't know which services to use .
do i use the native Apple Push Notification Service and in Android i use the Cloud Messaging ( or other native Android push service )
or i use the google : Cloud Messaging for both iOS and android ?
As per my opinion you should use Apple Push service for iOS and GCM for android.
You have 4 choices:
Use APNS for iOS, and GCM for Android.
Use GCM for both Android and iOS.
Use 3rd party sevices like parse.com, urbanairship, ... for all platforms (iOS, Android, windows, Unity,...)
Write the server-side yourself to support all platforms.
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Using APNS and GCM may be best by performance, as there is no other 3rd party there, but you have to build a server which can support both services. You wouldn't be paid in this choice.
Using GCM for both sides is another free choice choice in which you have to do implement only connection with GCM.
Using other 3rd party services like parse.com is very easy and can done within minutes, but you may be charged if you have a lot of transactions. Although by using parse.com you have more coverage on android devices. (e.g. GCM doesn't support android devices with no google play sevices APK installed)
Writing a server-side is very hard and time consuming, so do that if you really have no other choices. (like you want to run something like Whatsapp or Viber)
Now you should choose.
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I asking this question for clarification about push notification in xamarin. I have a xamarin.forms app which will display certain items in list view.The back-end of my app is in .Net. The items which shows in list view inside app is added from back-end.What I am trying to achieve is whenever items add in back-end, I want to receive notification in my app.
For the notification part I found two options.
FirebasePlugin Link
Azure push notification
I need some clarifications about
Which way should I follow? Is there any other cost effective way to implement push notifications in ios and android in cross platform way(Xamarin.forms)?
For implementing push notifications in ios ,is APN certificate is mandatory? Currently I don't have apple developer account.So for testing notification in ios seems difficult.
Any help or guidance is appreciated
Which way should I follow? Is there any other cost effective way to implement push notifications in ios and android in cross platform way(Xamarin.forms)?
From my experience the easiest way for me was to use firebase console to manage notifications both for Android and iOS. I have similar platform that uses push notifications to users whenever webapp database is updated, by certain users. To my disappointment Azure Push were more complicated to manage.
For implementing push notifications in ios ,is APN certificate is mandatory? Currently I don't have apple developer account.So for testing notification in ios seems difficult. Any help or guidance is appreciated
Yes. Apple developer account is mandatory. Moreover you cannot test your push notifications on iOS emulator. You must use physical device.
App Center Push is what I've started using now. Push services are free (which is great) and they have Xamarin SDKs which handle most of the platform specific config so it's really quick to get push working.
As the other answer has stated, you will still need an apple developer account and physical device to test on iOS.
It's part of the the Microsoft App Center offering which provides many other useful services for mobile development.
#groveale App Center Push feature is being retired(https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/appcenter/push/) so I would suggest using firebase or the implementation provided by xamarin docs.
I am building mobile apps for iOS and Android using PhoneGap Build. I would like to send push notifications to both types of device using the same server-side process. Is this possible?
Apple's certification process to enable push notifications is painful, much more so than anything available for Android. Do I have to use it?
GCM (Google Cloud Messaging) says it supports both operating systems, but the more I read about it - with respect to Phonegap - the less I see iOS mentioned! And sadly the GCM/Phonegap plugin doesn't support subscribing to a topic, which is a way of sending one message out to all devices in one go via a 'global' topic.
UrbanAirship and PushWhoosh seem to integrate with Phonegap, but I am forced to use their website to create my messages. GCM looks more attractive in this respect, because I can get our own ASP.NET server to talk to GCM via HTTP and thus control messages from our databases.
Main question: Are there any options for a single server-side option which can send push notifications to both iOS and Android via a single Phonegap plugin? (Ideally I would control messages from my own server, where one message can go to all Android/iOS devices in one go, and avoid as many Apple certificates as possible.~)
I am planning to build a "hybrid app" using PhoneGap which needs to have a iOS push notification engine.
And I want to use Google Cloud Messaging for sending push notifications to the iOS (I have used this for sending notifications to Android).
My questions here are:
Can I use Google Cloud Messaging for iOS in an hybrid app (using PhoneGap's https://github.com/phonegap-build/PushPlugin)?
Are there any changes that I may have to do while using the above plugin?
I have used the above PhoneGap plugin to receive notifications from GCM and APNS separately but this time I want to use the GCM for both iOS and Android.
Any help will be appreciated.
I also have used GCM and APNS separately for send push notifications to Android and iOs devices independently.
For all the documentation I've read, GCM for iOs devices is an approach of the APNS service but using the same structure that GCM is using for Android devices. I think that if you have used the APNService, you have found all the hard steps (certificates, using strictly a Mac for some things, ...) so, answering to your questions:
Yes, you can use the GCM for iOs with Phonegap plugin because GCM Server sends the data that PhoneGap's plugin is ready to receive (as you can see in the GCM Server Reference there are some data specific for APNS (nothing that you don't know if you have worked with APNS)).
If you are preparing a native app for iOs, you should see the GCM iOs Client documentation because you will have to use the iOs API but it's not your problem.
I don't expect that you have to do changes while using PhoneGap's plugin. You will only have to use PhoneGap's implementation for iOs devices and get ready to receive push notifications (but if you have some troubles, please, I will be pleased to know them).
Good luck!
Does flex mobile supports In-App purchases, push notification etc that can run on all supported mobile platforms (iOS, Android, Blackberry playbook).
Thanks
Currently "all" native mobile features are "supported" via AIR native extensions.
You can read about AIR native extensions here
It is quite a new feature, but the point is, you can create bridge between native code SDK and your AIR application. It means, your application will be able to make calls to native SDK, and also receive events from native SDK.
Basically, if you want to present native feature in your Flex/AIR application, you create native code to achieve what you want (does require only little coding in most cases), bridge it with ActionScript interface, and package it as .ane (air native extension). This extension behaves like actionscript library you can then reuse for all your Flex projects if interested.
Link mentioned above also presents some examples - native notification is amongst them...
Since its fairly new feature, there are only few examples presented, but its not hard to code your own native extension for native feature you want - i did it myself and it worked... (here is simple native extension tutorial)
So the result is - you can present any native feature in your Flex app, as long as you have native extension for it...
Does flex mobile supports In-App
purchases,
Not integrated with the native store "procedures". I hear you can "build your own" using PayPal w/o much trouble; but It is not something I've personally investigated.
push notification
Yeah, it should. As long you're connecting to a server that supports push notifications. BlazeDS and GraniteDS use long polling to accomplish this. WebORB and LiveCycle use RTMP.
It's hard to quantify what "etc" may mean.
A note on Apple push notifications to clear up an apparent misconception from www.Flextras.com: Apple does not allow apps to bypass APNS and implement their own push notification service. Please see point 5.1 below.
From https://developer.apple.com/appstore/resources/approval/guidelines.html#push-notifications:
5. Push notifications
5.1 Apps that provide Push Notifications without using the Apple Push
Notification (APN) API will be rejected
5.2 Apps that use the APN service without obtaining a Push Application ID from
Apple will be rejected
5.3 Apps that send Push Notifications without first obtaining user consent will
be rejected
5.4 Apps that send sensitive personal or confidential information using Push
Notifications will be rejected
5.5 Apps that use Push Notifications to send unsolicited messages, or for the
purpose of phishing or spamming will be rejected
5.6 Apps cannot use Push Notifications to send advertising, promotions, or direct
marketing of any kind
5.7 Apps cannot charge users for use of Push Notifications
5.8 Apps that excessively use the network capacity or bandwidth of the APN
service or unduly burden a device with Push Notifications will be rejected
5.9 Apps that transmit viruses, files, computer code, or programs that may harm
or disrupt the normal operation of the APN service will be rejected
I am currently using this open source iOS ANE to implement in-app purchases in Flex:
http://code.google.com/p/in-app-purchase-air-ios/wiki/APIDescription
There is a push notification ANE (both Android and iOS) as well that I'm currently investigating, although it may not support remote notifications:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/air/native-extensions-for-air/extensions/notification.html
This iOS-only ANE for push notifications is open source:
http://flashsimulations.com/2011/12/16/apple-push-notification-service-native-extension-for-adobe-air/
The tutorial for Windows Phone 7 push notifications says that to implement Push Notifications, you need to call Microsoft Push Notification service which manages the sending of the notification to WP7 devices.
Does that imply that to send an AMZ SNS message, I need to create an intermediary web service that routes the SNS message to Microsoft Push Notification service?
What are the options for Android and iOS devices?
Amazon has API libraries for both Android an IOS, so you can implement them directly.
See:
http://aws.amazon.com/sdkforandroid/
http://aws.amazon.com/sdkforios/
There is also a windows/.net library that you might be able to use directly inside a windows phone.
http://aws.amazon.com/net/
I don't know anything about the windows phone platform and your on your own for that one.
Android has cloud-to-device-messaging (c2dm), which is a labs project by google. At this time it is free. I don't know about wp7 or. I believe iOS has their own system as well.
Microsoft forked AWS' .NET SDK to create a version for WP7.
https://github.com/Microsoft-Interop/AWS-SDK-for-WP