Hullo,
I would like to employ Pushwoosh to deliver notifications to taxi drivers when reservations are made to them. So far I have configured it to deliver notifications to ALL users with the app installed from a php script, but I have not understood how to address them one by one and if that is possible with the free version.
Thanks,
Yes, Pushwoosh answered me and confirmed this option is only possible with the Premium account: that's a real pity.
You are right. From the official documentation :
If you want to send customized messages to only part of the subscribed devices you need to use our Remote API or Tags and Filters. Pushwoosh Remote API and Tags are available for Premium accounts only.
https://www.pushwoosh.com/notifications-to-singlegroups-of-devices/
Related
I am exploring Apache Kafka for building an application and it really suits our needs. However, as part of our application, we also need to push data streams and notifications to user’s apps and web dashboards. AFAIK Kafka clients do not support JavaScript so integration with web dashboards seems to be a challenge.
I want to know
What would be the best way to extend messages received in Kafka topic to web dashboards, assuming thousands of logged-in users. ( web socket is no option here)
What are the best available Kafka clients for iOS and Android.
Also, I am wondering that generally speaking, what would be the best way to fan-out messages coming in from a Kafka topic to thousands of end devices ( like websites, phones, IoT terminals, etc.). Any general or tool-specific suggestion would be awesome.
-Shyam
kafka-connect is a good use-case.
Please check the details here : https://www.npmjs.com/package/kafka-connect.
The other option is to have a micro-service to produce and consume. It is a good option if you later want to do additional operations before publish or after publishing.
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.
I want to check anyone phonenumber's online status by query from serverside without any notice to user. Is it even possible?
An operator can see the latest location updates etc from a mobile device, but I am guessing this is not your use case.
To do it as a third party service, you would need to either implement an instant messaging like availability service or leverage or extend an existing open source one like Tox (https://tox.chat), Telegram (https://telegram.org), Linphone (http://www.linphone.org) etc.
I want to implement a push notification server which should send push notifications via apn (apple), gcm (Google) and wns (windows). I already checked push platforms like the one from Amazon, but none of these do met the requirement that I maybe later want to implement an additional service provider (e.g. for location based push). In addition two that nearly no provider offers an api so that various systems can connect to it.
Want kind of libraries or frameworks do you know to send push notifications in an easy way?
I have already seen https://github.com/rs/pushd but I am searching for an java / Javascript based solution. Some others doesn't provide solutions for Windows.
Does anybody has any tips?
Thanks,
Fahim
Those are working well for me.
Apple:
https://github.com/notnoop/java-apns
Google:
https://github.com/google/gcm
Windows:
https://github.com/fernandospr/java-wns
We have a very basic application (iOS/Android) done in Appcelerator that will receive a single update every week. This update will be sent to all the users subscribed to the push notifications service.
By this moment, we have around 35k installs but 7,000 active users on this application on last month. We've been evaluating two services for all the push notifications:
StackMob
Parse
Appcelerator Cloud services is fine, but we're not willing to pay that much. Parse and StackMob prices are lower than Appcelerator Cloud services and by our analysis, we could even use the free service on both services (StackMob = 60k push notifications + 60k api calls, and Parse 1M api calls + 1M pushes).
If we're going to use Parse, we'll need to buy the Android and iOS module from the Marketplace ($30/year each). Which is fine. On the counterpart, I think we could use the REST API on StackMob for subscribing to the push service.
Questions:
What are your thoughts on both services? Which one do you prefer and why?
Have you used StackMob REST API for subscribing to push notifications?
How do you retrieve Android's token?
Is there any (cost effective) alternative to these services? I also reviewed PubNub, which seems to be great but costs are higher than StackMob and Parse.
Thanks in advance.
Update
I asked the same question on Appcelerator forums. After a while, users came back with several answers and users using Parse.com for this.
I ended implementing Parse.com, which was really simple by using the Android and iOS plugins that are on the Appcelerator Market.
I wanted to chime in and point you to some StackMob references around Appcelerator.
Aaron Saunders has several projects on github showing how to use StackMob with Appcelerator.
https://github.com/aaronksaunders
He also wrote a series of blog posts about it.
http://developer.appcelerator.com/blog/2011/11/titanium-appcelerator-quickie-stackmob-api-module-part-one.html
Our REST API reference is available at https://developer.stackmob.com/tutorials/dashboard/REST-API-Reference
One of the big differentiators between StackMob and others is our custom code option. You can write your own logic in Java, Scala or Clojure and host it on StackMob. The custom code can interact with your user data and other 3rd party APIs.
https://developer.stackmob.com/tutorials/custom%20code
I haven't used those services myself, so I cant comment. However, Another alternative we use (and have been pretty happy with) is Urban Airship. It's relatively cost effective, supports Android, iOS and BB and it has server side libraries for a bunch different languages. There is also a neat blog post outlining how to easily do device registration (at least for iOS) via simple web requests in Appcelerator.
The blog post on its Appcelerator integration is here.