I’m trying to send push notifications using a Pass type ID certificate via Twilio Notify. This is different than sending to an iOS App.
I’m able to do this from my own server, but I’m receiving an “invalid APNS credentials” error with Twilio...
Amazon Web Service's SNS also doesn't support this particular interface with APNS, so I was hoping Twilio would ... does anyone know the official answer? I can’t find anything in Twilio documentation.
At the time of asking, the answer was "no".
Twilio's customer service was excellent and added PassKit support as a result of a help ticket, so the answer is now "yes".
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I have a requirement that my bot should receive a notification from an external system and then it needs to send notification to Teams' logged in user's activity feed.
I followed https://github.com/microsoft/BotBuilder-Samples/tree/master/samples/csharp_dotnetcore/16.proactive-messages, it works on emulator. I deployed above app on on-premise IIS server (with https support) and then registered on https://dev.botframework.com/ by providing botid generated through MSTeams App builder. Now, when I sideloaded this bot in MS Teams, it does not send proactive message.
I am new to Bot framework hence steps by steps instructions and sample code will be much appreciated.
You haven't given a lot of detail in your question about your actual setup, or the code you're using, so it's hard to really answer, but I have posted a few time recently about pro-active messaging. Here's one with a bunch of detail, in C#, so hopefully it can help: Programmatically sending a message to a bot in Microsoft Teams - just see my answer in that page. If that doesn't help, please try describe your current scenario better, and what you've tried.
I need to add server side logic when a user buys and cancels a subscription. To me this seems like a basic feature that many apps probably use. However as it turns out it's not that simple to setup up the need webhooks.
My App will be available on android and iOS, so I will need to configure both, which is why I thought about using RevenueCat. But it turns out, this is a paid feature for $110/month, which is way too much for a/my new app. This is probably the biggest time saver for RevenueCat compared to using the official InApp Purchases packages, so I don't see why they would make it a paid feature.
Anyways what the best way to handle webhooks with the Play Store and the App Store? Any Guides and Tipps would be very helpful!
Apple and Google both offer server-to-server notifications that will notify you when a subscriber cancels.
Apple guide: Enabling Server-to-Server Notifications
Google guide: Real-time developer notifications
If you have your own user Ids, they won't be present in these server notifications so on your server you can save the user Id along with the transaction identifier of their original purchase. That way when a notification comes in you can look up the user from the transaction identifier and flag them as cancelled.
Alternatively, the RevenueCat API is included on their free plan so you can periodically poll their GET /subscribers endpoint to get the latest subscription status for a user. This obviously won't be real-time, but may be enough for your use-case.
Update: I decided to solve this issue similar as #enc_life suggested with the RevenueCat API. For validation the purchase, I send a request to my server, that checks with if the user actually bought the subscription. For canceling the subscription, I execute a function everyday on my server, that checks for all subscribers if the subscription is still valid.
I have a website running Laravel in the back-end, where users can create reports for other users.
When the report is created I would like to send a push notification to recipient user's desktop.
Do I need to use services like Pusher, OneSignal?
Any useful site with examples would be appreciated.
Your question
You could use Pusher, Redis/Socket.io, Pubnub, etc. Which one to use? well, this is more an opinion-based question.
These services broadcast events, then in your client apps (like your web front-end) you configure the client-side libraries of the service you choose to subscribe (to channels) and listen to those events. The documentation explains it better.
Examples/tutorials
Pusher
This is a tutorial published by the Pusher team.
Redis/Socket.io
This one
is a Laracasts series about this.
Just google.
Update
There is a Laravel-specific alternative, a package created exclusively for Laravel:
Laravel WebSockets
This is the post talking about the package and its inner working.
This is the repo.
Here you have the documentation.
If you like to show Native Desktop notification then i would suggest Web Push notification. In this way once user subscribed to push notification ,they will get real time notification and does not need to be on your website.
https://github.com/laravel-notification-channels/webpush
You might used whatsapp or LINE from iOS or Android smartphone.
You need to activate your account but input your phone number at the first time.
And the app will try to send a SMS message to your phone for authentication.
Do you have any suggestion how they achieve this?
As far as I think, there might be some SMS API Service companies to help on that.
If so, do anyone have some suggestions or list for those companies which provide integrated global SMS Service API (via Web API to trigger)
And also if I want to receive SMS message from users, is there any suggested company to help on receiving SMS?
Or is there any better way to achieve similar goals (Sending and Receiving SMS via Web API worldwide)
I know that the company Twilio does it. Check this out http://www.twilio.com/api/sms
What you're talking about is often called as two-factor authorization, mobile verification API, one time password API. We (and me, personally) implemented this as a part of our SMS API.
As a first step, you must generate the code. And after the user received the message and entered it in your UI, you're validating it.
May i know if there is anyway i can intercept or retrieve the windows phone message from?
I'm trying to create an application, sending the message isn't a problem but i'm having some problem looking for the retrieved message in any means. My plan is to use SMS to transmit data so i'm planning to create a template to display it.
Hope someone can advice. Thanks everyone! :)
Currently there are no API's to access SMS in WP7 or 7.5 but in future if MS shows mercy then it may be possible.
You can check this link and vote for SMS access API's.
If you're talking about the windows phone's messaging app, then you cannot access the data. The API does not provide anyway to access such information, from your application, for security reasons. So, intercepting calls or messages are not allowed.