I would like to send a remote notification to my iOS app whenever I tweet from my Twitter account. How do I go about this?
I know how to code for iOS but do not know anything related to server-side coding, so specific instructions would be very helpful :)
I have seen there is a paid service PushWoosh that has this functionality, but I don't want to pay $40/month for something I cannot customize.
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I've read the Apple docs on APNs and there's one thing I'm not sure about. First, some background on where this is coming from.
In the company I work at, we develop an SDK that interfaces with our webservices. One part of the SDK is sending messages and we're thinking about push notifications when the user is not online (app suspended/not running). We don't have an app ourselves, but would like to provide this feature to users of the SDK and our platform.
So: Can we create an authentication token or certificate of our own to connect to APNs and then push a notification to an app developed by a 3rd party (with their app token)? Or do we need to collect all the information from the 3rd party and basically impersonate them?
Google and Microsoft provide a service like that, but I'm not sure what's happening behind the scenes.
Can someone please elaborate?
I publish an app with in-app purchase on Google play, I hope to receive an email notification when a use order an item of this app.
How can I do? I can't find any setting in both https://play.google.com/apps/publish/v2/ and https://wallet.google.com/. Could you help me? Thanks!
And more, I can't get an email notification when a user pucrhased a paid app of mine on Google Play too!
I've gone though all the settings on the both the wallet and developer console and there isn't much in the way of email notification settings.
But one could build an application upon googles API for the developer console and that might give you access to the payment history so you could setup an notification system.
Was wondering how facebook and instagram gets their notification notices whenever you're using the app. eg. Message number on facebook, Somebody followed you on instagram, etc. Is it using push notifications? Or just regular executions of an api? It seems expensive to do push notifications cuz of the monthly fee of a VPS. (Based off of this tutorial http://www.raywenderlich.com/32960/apple-push-notification-services-in-ios-6-tutorial-part-1)
I wanted to know any other options that I can use as I only need something witht the same effect as facebook or instagram.
Thoughts?
Yes. They do use push notification for updates of friends/follow/IM.
The cost of using Push Notifications is something big company can easily afford and it is nothing compared to how much money a iOS app can make to the dev.
Yes,
This rule clearly states that any advertising or marketing activity by Push Notification could cost your a ban in App Store.
So how about Groupon and other special offer focused apps? Each day I receive notifications from Groupon with clear marketing content, and when I open it I'm redirected into the view with big "Buy" button (Btw. do you know any other live apps using push in similar way? I mean not exact Groupon-clone apps).
Ofcourse user need to have a choice if he wants to receive such notifications or not, and from who (like in Groupon you can choose subscribed cities), privacy policy need to clearly state what kind of notifications user will receive. Maybe the frequency of notifications does matter (1 per day for Groupon)?
Ok lets get back to the point of my question:
Whats the receipe for such app which explicitly bends the 5.6 rule to stays up and running in App Store?
Have you ever trying to submit similar application?
App reviews rules are not strict, since Groupon is just that, an advertisement platform, an app is expected to send these kind of push notification.
But if, for example, the Facebook app would be using push notification to tell there users to download some other app the rulle 5.6 will come in to play.
But just that some other app got approved does in no way mean that you app will, even if it has the same functionality. So the answer you are seeking for will not do you any good, since even if someone got there app approved will not mean you will get it approved.
Is it possible to find information about Apple Push Notification Service usage?
How many people are using, and how many people are declining them?
Or maybe, somebody already has this sort of information?
Apple does not provide a lot of information about how many users actually accept/decline push notifications but you can get a good idea of what's going on by comparing the number of total installs and the number of valid push notification tokens you have ( I'm assuming that since you are interested in analytics you already have a Push server set up ) Push notification tokens are only generated if a user accepts.
If you need more information about the actual push notifications, you'll need to get your hands dirty and actually add tracking code in the application. If you're looking for something free try Google Analytics for iOS with Custom Event Tracking: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/ios/v2/events
Urban Airship also provides a pretty good analytics service, but you have to be using their push notification server: http://urbanairship.com/products/push-messaging#analyze