Lets suppose some app developers use our SDK. Can we send push notifications to devices that use our SDK independently, without the help of hosted app?
I know that push is unique to every app , multiple push keys , settings can't be made.
But I just like to know if any other options are available.
Our goal is to send push for devices that use our SDK.
Thanks.
This is not possible using Apple Push Notifications. Sending an Apple Push Notification to an iOS Application requires a certificate that is unique for each application. You would need to receive the certificates from the developers of those apps.
In addition, the apps would have to register to APNS and send the device token to your server. This part can be done as part of your SDK, assuming the users of your SDK call some SDK method that performs the registration and sends the token.
I'd like to be notified of certain events on my webserver with a push notification from my website to my iPhone. Is this somehow possible, or do I have to install/create a special App for this?
In order to use Push Notification it would have to be a native iPhone app on your phone. You might be able to set up some sort of email notification coming from your website and turn on push notifications for your mail client on your iPhone.
In regards to #gnuf's post (Sorry it wouldn't let me comment on your post) Your web server can act as the Provider of Push Notifications but will still require a native application on the phone to receive the notifications.
You can definitely send notifications triggered from a website: you just have to hook up the backend to do so. See this previous post for more information.
Possible to have Local Notifications push on iPhone using a php screen that sends an alert?
i would like the iphone to call a php script and see for any changes if it did change then send a local notification to the user.
Not possible. The App needs to be open to register local notifications. If the php is on a server push notifications could be used though.
This is a very basic question on push notifications.
I need to know whether an iPhone application can receive push notifications.
I want them to operate as follows.
User installs the application.
When the application is not running, the user notices that something has changed with the application.
This is indicated by the application icon changing.
User opens the application and a new screen comes up that says:
"You have 3 new items to download"
The application will need to communicate with a custom server to obtain changes. The changes will only be known by that server, not the Apple App Store.
Is the above possible to program?
Yes. Your custom server sends them to Apple for distribution to devices. Read Apple's Push Notifications documentation for more info.
Is it possible to implement IPhone's push notification service for a
Webapp that has an icon on the "desktop"? If so how?
That depends on exactly what you mean by Webapp that has an icon on the "desktop"?
No, if you're referring to a webapp where you have saved a link with Add to Home screen as per this Apple instruction.
Yes, if your webapp is a thin CocoaTouch shell using webkit.
i have an alternative solution for this:
1) create a gmail account and get gpush app on your iphone (setup the gmail in the app).
2) instate of sending direct notification to iphone, you can send an email from your webapp to the gmail account.
3) within 5 sec. you will receive the push notification.
hope this help.
You can always delegate the messaging to 3rd party notification apps.
One great example is Boxcar (http://boxcar.io/).
You can have your web app send notifications via their API and have them delivered to the app. Lastly, you can the use deeplinks in your message to open your webapp to point the user to the content item you wanted to bring their attention to.
No, it's not possible. It's only for cocoa touch (AppStore) apps. If you want more info, take a look on the documentation.
another alternative: use an sms service like http://www.smstrade.de/ to send an sms to the user's phone. That's the way I do it.
Another provider for sending sms as notification is https://bulktrade.de
There works world wide
You can use HTML5 to introduce your own push messages. From wikipedia
"For the client side, WebSocket was to be implemented in Firefox 4,
Google Chrome 4, Opera 11, and Safari 5, as well as the mobile version
of Safari in iOS 4.2.1 Also the BlackBerry Browser in OS7 supports
WebSockets."
To do this, you need your own provider server to push the messages to the clients. If you want to use APN (Apple Push Notification), you must have a native application which must be downloaded through the App Store.
From iOS 6.0 I noticed that a WebApp icon placed on homescreen automaticly refreshes after each webkit open of webapp. Of course if you change this icon on the webserver. So theoretically you can display any informative content in this icon(numbers, status etc) BUT it will not refreshes instantly - only after opening and closing a webkit webapp.