I have hit a dilemma and don't know how to go about this problem.
I have an application right now being tested by a good amount of people. Within this app, I have push notifications set up. No problem with them at all. Everything is going great.
I hit a problem when I want to test versions that are in build currently. If I send a push notification to test certain features, they get sent to everyone currently with the app. Yes, it makes sense. But how do I go about setting up a workflow where I am able to have separate push notifications for live versions of the app and pre-release versions?
I use Parse for the push notifications.
Use advanced targeting. Just enumerate device tokens you need to send push notifications to in where clause. Check out this sample in parse.com forum.
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Im currently developing an app in Swift. I'm at the last stage of the app where I just need to integrate push notifications to the lock screen when certain user actions occur.
I'm going for something like how Instagram sends a push notification when a new user follows you or likes your post.
My entire backend is using firebase, and i've looked into firebase cloud messaging and I dont know if it has the capability to perform notifications like this.
I've watched tutorials and read documentation and I know you can push notifications to users from the console but I'm looking for notifications to be published and pushed based off specific user actions.
I know this is a very broad questions so what I want to know is:
A) Are notifications like instagram possible through Firebase cloud messeging?
B) If not, can you point me in the direction of how to figure this out?
Thank you!
A) Are notifications like instagram possible through Firebase cloud messaging?
Yes
Firebase send the push to APNS first then APNS send push notification to iOS devices.
If user 'A' do any action then that specific action will be transferred/send to staging/production server via apis. Based on your business logic staging/production server will send push notification to users(FCM token).
I hope this is helpful or you can explain the exact issue your are facing.
I’m creating an App ID for a Notification Service Extension
Do I need to add any capabilities to it?
Its only purpose is to download the image for the notification. I don’t think I need to.
Currently I'm able to build into my device without enabling any capabilities in Xcode. Although when I look into the provisioning profile that Xcode built itself, I see Keychain Sharing enabled.
I also saw this tutorial and the tutorial goes with enabling 'App Groups'.
While this other tutorial goes with enabling App Groups along with Push notification. I don't think I need App groups because I don't need to pass any values, just updating the notification is all I need.
I didn't find anything in the docs that mentions what's the correct approach. A friend told me he got his to to work without enabling anything, so I'm very confused.
Basically, you don't need any capability for notification service extension.
Several of my applications work without any capability.
One of them use app group. I need to enable it to share the log files of main application, then load it from notification service and push it to server side when receive a silent push.
Few of them need keychain sharing, so that I can get the key to secure communicate with server side from notification service.
I am building a phonegap based app and trying to update and manage the push notification badge in it. At this point of time, what I have checked all over SO the solution seems to be in either passing the value in 'aps' payload in our server code or in one of the methods that we have in AppDelegate.(I have done this both and found it to be working)
However, what I want to know is to how to keep a real time update of the number of notifications received/read by the user so as to update the app icon automatically?
I believe it is related to our server code, but I would really appreciate a detailed example/explanation on how to get this done as I have been struggling to get this work for a full week now.
P.S: I have checked almost all the links related to badge in iOS in Stack Overflow but have not found something with enough code or example to get this working successfully.
Thanks.
I am using Windows Azure Notifications Hub to create a push notifications service for my iOS game made with Unity3D. I only want simple notifications like informing about an update or a new feature.
But I am having some issues. I am following the tutorial Get Started with Notifications Hubs.
I did everything except the sending notification part, because I don't receive any token.
Moreover, I can't add the Windows Azure SDK into my application because I don't have any AppDelegate.h or AppDelegate.m in the XCode project generated by Unity3D.
When I call in Unity3D RegisterForRemoteNotificationTypes I don't receive any token back. And I think it's the first main problem.
I don't know where the issue comes from. Should I use another service ? How can I solve the issue as I don't know where does it comes from ?
Thank you very much !
If you are asking for push notification permissions make sure that you haven't accidentally denied this permission at some point as iOS will only show this option once.
You can check and see the status of push notification permissions in the Settings menu of your iPhone/iPad.
If you are willing to spend a little money you can get the etcetera plugin from prime31
that can help you get a token and also provides access to other native APIs.
Regarding the lack of a AppDelegate.h file from the XCode project, this is because Unity doesn't generate 2 files: one for the app delegate and one for the controller, they are in the same file called UnityAppController.h/m.
Note: is not trivial to add cocoa touch controls using this class if this is what you want.
I can't afford UrbanAirship so I'm trying to program the server side of a Newsstand app myself.
I plan on using the JavaPNS API.
The one thing I can't seem to figure out is how to find a list of users who have a subscription in my app.
Can I query this information from Apple some how?
If I can't then I guess that means that each time a user subscribes they send their device token directly to my server. I hope this is not the case because I was hopping to run the server on my laptop and send out pushes myself without having to keep the laptop running all day listening for new subscribers.
Thanks!
Looks like I do need to register each device with my server: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/mo-ios-push/index.html#resources
You kind of found your answer but just in case you really need a server for not only handling the push notification (for telling your app in Newsstand to check the new issue and download it in the background) but also for subscription and in-app purchasing.
Every time you launch the app you should check few things before you refresh the UI. You should check if the user is a subscriber or has user already bought the issue so you can show view/download button instead of Buy button.
Check out these tutorials if they help to understand these communications better but believe me you will end up with one of those services like Urban Airship (Which I think UA is the best option because it handles all in one not just push notification):
http://ios-blog.co.uk/tutorials/how-to-make-a-magazine-app-in-ios-part-i/
this one is more focus on server part:
http://ios-blog.co.uk/tutorials/how-to-make-a-magazine-app-in-ios-part-ii/
http://www.viggiosoft.com/blog/blog/2011/10/17/ios-newsstand-tutorial
http://www.raywenderlich.com/2797/introduction-to-in-app-purchases
And as always this is the best place for start (it has everything you need):
https://developer.apple.com/devcenter/ios/newsstand/
These are some resources to help you in developing app for Newsstand but still there are not enough people out there to share their experience.
Best of luck.
Edit: Add these two links two this list:
http://www.marco.org/2012/10/11/the-magazine
http://www.marco.org/2012/12/12/the-magazine-future-of-publishing