Send push notifications to all clients without knowing their device tokens

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I’ve successfully implemented the real push notification service according to this guide. (https://devdactic.com/ionic-push-notifications-guide). :slight_smile:

Now I can send push notifications to the android device using ionic.io dash board. And using postman with the device token. :slight_smile:

I need to send push notifications to all the users of my application. For that I can use ionic.io dash board. but it has to be done manually. :frowning:

What I want is, to send push notifications from my server to all the users.
For that the device tokens are a necessary in the post request.

Is there a possible way to send push notifications from a server without the knowledge of the device tokens (like using an api call from ionic.io)?

Or do I have to retrieve all the registering apps’ device tokens at the beginning and use them when I need to send push notifications?

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Hello,

You have to know the tokens’ devices, this is how APNS and GCM are working. Even if you use the ionic’s push solution, it uses APNS and GCM.

I implemented it and everytime the device get the token I post it to the server. Then the server has to call the API with all the tokens stored.

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Yup, You can do it manually,

You can register all your users to a topic. After that whenever you sends a notification to that topic, all users will get that notification.

More details: https://developers.google.com/cloud-messaging/topic-messaging