subject: Push Notification Service [print this page] Push Notification service enables third-party application servers to send notifications to various devices such as android, iOS etc phones. You can easily leverage this ability while developing apps for your devices running on iOS. E.g. In Apple (iPhone products) It supports 3 types of remote notifications that you can easily include in your project: alerts, badges and sounds.
Push Notification is received by the client application using the following process strategy:
The notification provider generated an appropriate notification and then passes the same to Push Notification Service.
It then forwards the same to the device youre using or want the notification.
The device then passes the notification payload to the application.
This is how a basic Push Notification service works. Push Notification is not multitasking and to some users, it may not look new or different but its working is very different.
Push Notification allows you to send messages (notifications) directly to all those people whove installed your app in their device, even when the app is closed. It sends all the relevant information including sport scores, news, and stock market information or about game challenges and always keeps you updated no matter where you are. Its one of the best ways to receive relevant information without looking for it manually. All you need is a connection with the internet.
Push Notification allows you to send messaged either to the whole list or to a particular group you define and in fact it even allows you to create custom messages and send it to individuals. There are lots of benefits using Push Notification as a service in your app: Customized messages, engagement, reports, powerful communication channel, customer control, audience tracking and easy integration in your app. Very easy to create and you can not only send text alerts but also music, videos, surveys, coupons etc. directly to your app.
Push Notification Service makes sending Push Notification alerts simple for everyone in an organization. And this helps the business team reach out to all your customers quickly without adding any help from your technical team. The best advantage of Push Notifications are that you can easily write all your messages and preview it which will help you to know exactly how your customers will see those messages and engage with it. Some of the best benefits are: Easy web-based interface, scheduling on the fly and sophisticated tagging. These benefits help in no spam and only relevant information is received to us.
Push Notification allows you to measure the effectiveness of all your notifications as well as understand the influence of it over time. Push Notification can also be used to send messages in Channel Subscription Model. Push Notification is easy to use and can be easily integrated in your own apps with no much effort and it requires absolutely no back-end. It can be easily integrated on 3 major platforms i.e. iOS, Android and WP7. One can send as many relevant alerts as they want related to their app.
