Anything you recommend reading regarding push notifications?
I was wondering why there are services but you have to pay for them, can’t you send straight from your server to a phone the notifications?
This is quite a broad question, feel free to share good reads on that
Thanks
There is parse.com that’s easy to implement.
I need some service that will allow me to use both push notifications and real time chat. I need BaaS that’s combination of parse and firebase, so if anyone have some tips about that it would be nice to share with me.
Hi Commandantp,
I’ll start with a disclosure, I’m a co-founder at PushApps so my answer is going to be about why you should consider working with one of the push notifications providers.
I saw Mladen recommendation of Parse, and there are many more great solutions such as urban-airship, pushwoosh, xtify and more. I’m not going to tell you which one to choose.
Of course you can develop it yourself but then you will waste lots of time which you could invest in your main business development - what about special features (scheduling, segmentation etc.)? statistics? OS updates? are you going to support all of it by yourself?
Does it worth the few bucks you can pay to get it all off your shoulders?
think about it… and after that you should visit PushApps
Sure I’m happy to consider a service but before that I like to understand why so many services have been created? What’s the deal with push notifications, is it technically too complicated or …?
Also in all the plan I see remote API, what is that exactly ?
Here is my use - app with an API backend on my server, chat system in it that must send a push notification when user has a new message and on a status update basically.
I see free plans that could work I guess to start but what is that API thing not included? Does this mean I can only have them sent from the app itself rather than from my back end?
I’m working in my application with back-end built in Laravel (PHP Framework), and after you understand how works the concept of push notification, you will be able to do it yourself! It’s very simple.
I agree with the others that it’s fairly simple if you have a fairly stable backend already anyway. Mine is in RoR and I just installed pushmeup gem and got it working. Initially I had some frustration getting the certificate properly set up for iOS and so tried a push service, but the service can’t help solve that problem, anyway
Thanks for the feedback! My backend is also Laravel
Do you have to save in your DB something about the user’s device or not (like the token or so) ?
I will look into doing it myself, found two packages on github that could be interesting
Just to chime in here, we are about to release an alpha version of Ionic Push which will make push notifications a lot easier for everyone. I will reply on this thread once it’s ready (~3 weeks). We have a few people testing now.
It’s going to be the first ionic.io service, I hope you like it!
If any of your friends/colleagues/etc. want to get on the list, have them create accounts here: https://apps.ionic.io/landing/push. You guys are already good to go.
@max thanks for the heads up, have a quick question…I’m about finished with my entire front end and am about to begin on doing push notifications. I need to finish them up within two weeks so i’m wondering if I should just start from scratch (we use django for our backend), or should I hold off and wait for you guys? I’d love to use your solution but need some more info on availability, especially cutting it close like this