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Is there any cost for using the Push Notification Service?
I know it requires using my own server to send notifications, but the signals are passed through an Apple server. There are no server transfer fees?
No, there is no cost. The only "gotchas" are that your app has to be in the app store(i.e. no jailbroken apps), and you have to maintain a server for pushing the events.
If you are building you own push server, which you mention above, there are hosting expenses and the cost of time to set up and administer it. Alternatively, you can use a service like iLime (www.ilime.com), which provides a RESTful API and a lot of free push alerts up-front to handle the server infrastructure for you.
Disclosure: I work for KeyLimeTie, who produces iLime - let me know if you have any questions.
Best wishes integrating APNS into your app, however you choose to do so.
Tim
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I have developed an application that sends messages to mobile within many more things you can do.
My question is if I go up that application that I have to pay more for an application that sends messages.
It's the same price for up an application in all cases?, I find few requirements on the rise in applications in the apple store.
Thanks and sorry for my bad English.
Are you talking about push notifications?
Apple don't charge developers to send push notifications. You pay your $99/year and 30% of your app's cost no matter what features you use.
If you're using a third party service to send out the notifications, that service might charge you, however.
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Because of the outcome of another question I asked: Push or Local notifications alerting user to change between saved and remote data
I have decided to tackle Push Notifications head on. I don't, however, really know where to begin when buying a server. Once I start following tutorials and the like, I should be good to follow along relatively unchallenged, but I'd hate to buy a server not capable of running background processes, installing SSL certificates, and making outgoing TLS connections on certain ports (Those were the requirements on one tutorial). Could anyone recommend a company that offers servers at relatively cheap prices since I don't want to spend huge amounts on it, and have the correct specifications for push notifications. I live in the UK, but since I'm localising the app a couple of countries, would it be worth having the server in another country?
Anyway, any help would be greatly appreciated.
Regards,
Mike
I would consider using a service like Urban Airship to start. https://go.urbanairship.com/accounts/register/
It'll be free until you are doing more than 1 million pushes a month and will save you the hassle of setting up a server.
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I haven't post my app to the app market yet, so i am just wondering if a user buys our app, would it be possible to charge him for every upgrade or every upgrade has to be free.
I ask this question because our company has to make the decision whether we keep adding more features to the app or we make different apps to do different things and charge our clients accordingly.
Thanks for reading.
No, you cannot (currently) charge for updates.
You might consider unlocking additional functionality using in-app purchase.
It depends on what you mean by 'update.'. In the case of maybe a database, dictionary-type, or even a game (possibly, though unlikely), app updating some kind of database (SQLite, XML, etc.) is allowed, but downloading code is a no-no as stated in the developer guidelines. If you must charge, the downloading of a database is the only possible way, otherwise in-apps will fill the gap.
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I have a few iphone and andriod apps and would like to collect better and more targeted user feedback for them. The feedback from the App stores is pretty generic and doesn't add much value at most times.
Any framework or website that I could use to help here? Kind of like Get Satisfaction for Mobile Apps.
If you are developing for Android, you can take a look on LetThemVote.
It's a free feedback collector service which provides an API+Client UI.
Disclaimer: I'm the developer of LTV
You might want to take a look at Promobe. They are a service for mobile app developers that provides a rich user feedback mechanism - you can define custom feedback forms for each of your apps, track that feedback, publish promotion codes, etc.
It's a new service that just went into beta but looks pretty interesting.
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Looks like my shared hosting plan does not cover running a Jabber server. Does anyone know of any free or very cheap solutions for doing this?
Google Apps for Domains provides XMPP support.
Dreamhost will host a Jabber server for you on their cheap web hosting plans. Although I had a bit of a falling-out with Dreamhost over a policy of theirs that penalized me for registering a domain that I later wanted to transfer to a friend of mine who was also hosted on Dreamhost.