push-notification

Are there any push notification system in place for Androids?

There are currently push notifications available for iPhones, Palm Pre and Blackberries each provided by their respective manufacturer. However I have heard nothing for Androids (probably because google does not actually sell the phones themselves. Are there any solutions out there at all? ...

how to get device token from apns to device?

I want to use push notification in my app.i want to know that do i need to include certificate in my app to get device token or i just need to install certificate in key chain and implement only the methods which are described in PushNotificationGuide? actually I'm a bit confused about whether i integrate certificate in my app or not.I j...

Is there a way to leave previous messages up while pushing out badge updates?

So imagine this scenario: 10.00: your app pushes a message "Hello" 10.01: your app pushes a badge update with no message out the same device What happens is that the message dissappears. So if the user didn't see it, it's gone. Is there a way to send a badge notification without clearing any previous messages? I know you can send the ...

iPhone Push Notification Problem with Ad Hoc Provision

The iPhone i'm developing with (building the application to, not installed via ad-hoc) receives push notifications as it should. I've got an application that just sends dummy push notifications on command, and the dev iphone receives them consistently. However, I've distributed a beta build under the release configuration to several co...

how to enable push notification types from settings bundle when registering for push notification?

I have created settings bundle and also three switches for alert,sound and badge.i am also getting 0 or 1 according to switch(On/Off).Now how do i enable only selected notification types when calling this method [[UIApplication sharedApplication] registerForRemoteNotificationTypes:(here i want to set types from settings)]; how do i ...

What are the basic concepts behind "push" notifications / messaging?

What are the key concepts that a developer should know when building an iPhone application that takes advantage of push notifications? ...

Can I send push notification on iPhone based on its location (without the app running)?

I have this requirement from client where depending on the location of the iPhone we need to send push notification. Now how can we find location of the iPhone without the app running in background? Is there anyway we can achieve this? ...

Is it possible to implement iPhone push notifications in a Google App Engine application?

I'm in the planning phase of an iPhone application and am considering using Google App Engine for my server component due to its scalability features. Push notifications are sent using a binary interface to gateway.push.apple.com:2195. However, the JRE for the server is only allowed to use the following standard classes, which does not...

Urgent:-Steps after installing certificate on server for push notification?

I have exported and combined apns-development certificate put it on root of server. Now how do I know if the server supports ssl? How do I connect to apns and send device token and json body for push notification? Need help urgently. I have godaddy's hosting plan. ...

Push notifications dialogue

Hi Guys, Is there any way I could make the "Would you like to enable push notifications..." dialogue not to come up upon first time application launch but rather on some other action in the application? Regardz, Mladen ...

How to send a push Notification every x minutes?

Hey, how is it possible to push a notification to a device, every x minutes? Thanks in advance ...

iPhone pushNotification DeviceToken - How to "decrypt"

I've already managed to get the devicetoken from APNs. It's type of NSData. So i want to write this deviectoken into my mysql db. I've already tried to convert it to a string without luck. That was my way: NSString *tokenTMP = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:devToken encoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding]; If i have the deviceToken in a rea...

Push-Notification Badge auto increment.

I've been implementing the push service to my application, and I've been thinking about the application's badge. My app is a mail app (sorta) and I want to notify the user via push for new messages added to the inbox, I want the badge = number of new messages in the inbox. I thought of doing it server sided (provider) checking for new m...

iPhone APNS Device Tokens in sandbox vs. production

How do device tokens vary from sandbox to production modes? I think I have locked up some device tokens into a production mode, and they can't be pushed to from development. Any ideas on how I can check? ...

Port Number for Incoming Apple Push Notifications

What network services, port numbers, outgoing incoming or both, need to be open on a network for an ipod touch to receive Apple Push Notifications? I know the outgoing port number to set when sending the apns. The only thing is, in my school practically every outgoing (and incoming) port is blocked and as a result APNs do not work. I am...

How to use Objective C to send device token for push notifications and other user settings to sql table on server

Ideally, I would like to send an HTTP Request using POST to the Push Notification Server that contains the device token as well as some user-defined settings. From there I can set up a php script on the server to deal with the incoming data and input it into an sql table. If this is the only way to do it, how would I go about initiating ...

How to make all connected browsers reload initiated by a server-side event

Suppose there is a webpage with dynamically generated content -- say a div containing the current number of connected browsers. When the count changes on the server I want all connected browsers to reload the count so that everyone sees the increment/decrement. What's the best way to accomplish this? Keywords: ajax, broadcast, browse...

Twitter Search alerts for iPhone

I'd like to use Urban Airship to send push notifications to a user's iPhone when a new Twitter Search result is found. I'm pretty positive I'd need a web app built to accomplish this - to register the user's iPhone, save their search terms and poll Twitter Search. How could I go about building this app (in terms of which language to us...

How do I tell if my iPhone app is running when a Push Notification is received?

I am sending Push Notifications to my iPhone app, and I'd like a different set of instructions to execute depending on whether the app is already launched or not. I'm new to iPhone development, and while I suspect UIApplication or my project's AppDelegate class has the solution, I haven't found a good answer. Is there an easy way to chec...

Twitter New tweets feature ?

How does tweeter implement the asynchronous notifications for new tweets ? If it is a form of server push technology, does any one know or suggest how this feature could have been implemented ? Thanks ...