I am trying to send push notifications to my web application.
Is there any way to send push notification to my web users using parse.com's push service if i have the GCM_SENDER_ID and my APP_ID ?
Right now the procedure that i am thinking of using is this :
1). Run a service worker on my chrome client which gives me registration id of user . I save this in my installation class in deviceToken field . I also save my gcm_sender_id along with it.
2). Use parse.com's push sending api.
Will this work or do i need to directly make rest calls to https://android.googleapis.com/gcm/send to send my message.
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I have an Expo app with a Laravel backend and I want to send notifications to the app. But the condition is that only a specific user can receive it.
I installed the Following library Exponent Notifications
I've Installed expo-notifications as well
But I don't know How it works, How I can listen to the notification channel and How to send Notification from backend.
With Expo you don't get to pick the push notification service according to you, you can try Firebase Cloud messaging or One Signal, but I don't think you can do it only by your Laravel Backend
Question : How can we subscribe for push notification with a basic authentication enabled URL?
We are developing a client exchange application in which one of the feature would require a timely notification from the exchange server. For this we decided to subscribe for push notification by providing a client web service URL. This client URL is enabled with basic authentication. Our question is how to provide this authentication details when we request for a push notification subscription? Can we somehow provide this credential in clientdata tag ?
Thanks and Regards,
Anish
No Push notifications in EWS are Anonymous by design the SubscriptionId is one thing you could use as a validation on the client end as it unique to the current subscription your listening for and will be available inside the SOAP message. Otherwise if you proxy the push through an intermediary would be another way of doing it.
Have you had a look at the actually data that is returned in a Push, the only thing you get is the EWSId's of the Item (or folders) and details of what type of notification is it is (along with the subscription id). No Message information is disclosed within a push and it always requires that you connect back the Exchange Server to get any details about items involved.
If you really can't live with an non authenticated endpoint then I would suggest you take a look at Streaming notifications https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/dn458792%28v=exchg.150%29.aspx . These rely on the client maintaining an Authenticated connection to the server at all times.
I was wondering, is it possible to set up a Mac OS X app, to get notified when a user makes changes to a Google Calendar. Like what you can do with EKEventStore?
There’s a query method + (id)queryForCalendarListWatchWithObject:(GTLCalendarChannel *) object, but I’m not really sure how you should set up the GTLCalendarChannel object.
Or is the only way, other than polling, to use push notifications?
Thanks in advance.
You can use Google Calendar API which provides push notifications that let you watch for changes to resources. This makes periodic polling unnecessary.
You can use this feature to improve the performance of your application. It allows you to eliminate the extra network and compute costs involved with polling resources to determine if they have changed. Whenever a watched resource changes, the Google Calendar API notifies your application.
To use this API, you need to:
Register the domain of your receiving URL. Before you can set up a push notification channel, you must register the domain for any URLs you plan to use to receive push notification messages.
Set up your receiving URL, or "Webhook" callback receiver. Whenever a watched resource changes, your application will receive a notification message describing the change. The Google Calendar API sends these messages as HTTPS POST requests to the URL you specified as the "address" for this notification channel.
Set up a notification channel for each resource endpoint you want to watch. To request push notifications, you need to set up a notification channel for each resource you want to watch. After your notification channels are set up, the Google Calendar API will inform your application when any watched resource changes.
When a calendar changes, it will notify your app and the app does an API call to get the update. You can use one of the Google API client libraries to utilize push notifications.
Check these documentation and blog about Google Calendar API Push notifications.
Hope this helps!
I have read the article about Push Notification Service, but I am still confused. I’m a new for MS window phone application developing. My application needs to get the data in the whole class from web service that is for the specific organization. Hope someone can answer my question as below.
In my application, the phone rings and the user answer the phone during sending the request to the web request to get the data. What will happen if the web service sending back the respond?
In the above situation, do I need the Application Push Notification service?
I retrieve the data by using DataContractSerializer. If I need the Push Notification Service, is it meaning that I need to modify the webservice for returning the xml instead of the whole class?
The ongoing call will not disrupt the web request-response flow hence you need not be troubled about it
I'm testing out Windows Phone 7.5 push notifications. I have got the 3 different push types working fine (Toast, Tile and Raw) and am able to send messages from unit tests and a web application without any problems and receive them in my WP application. I want the ability to add extra properties to the push notification and the Raw push type does this perfectly for me and I can add custom key/value pairs or anything else to the push message and extract it on the phone app. I have just found out however that it only works if the application is running and my unit tests fail (suppressed notification status is received in unit test) when the phone application is not running (checked documentation which confirms this too). Is there anyway to add extra properties (key/values) to toast or tile messages or some way I can use raw in another way ? Toast notifications seem limited to a title property and an actual message property but I need to add additional data.
Just wondering if anyone had any suggestions / workarounds ?
The general practice I use is to initially send a raw notification to the device with phone-usable data embedded in the message. If my application is currently running then I can process the contents of the raw message and immediately make use of it on the phone. However if the application is not currently running on the phone you will receive notification from the push servers that the message could not be delievered. If I receive this response I send out a Toast / Tile notification.
With Toast notifications the only parametrisation you have access to is the URI that will launch the application. This is specified with the wp:param node of the message. Eg.
<wp:Notification xmlns:wp="WPNotification">
<wp:Toast>
<wp:Text1>Toast Title</wp:Text1>
<wp:Text2>Toast sub title</wp:Text2>
<wp:Param>/MainPage.xaml?LaunchedFrom=A%20Toast%20Notification</wp:Param>
</wp:Toast>
</wp:Notification>
If the user taps on this toast notification your application will launch and navigate to MainPage.xaml. You can access the querystring passed in via the NavigationContext.QueryString.
Note: The wp:Param node can only be sent to Mango (and up) devices. Additionally the entire contents must be less than 256 characters or you'll receive a PushErrorTypeMessageBadContent error. (Thanks to Ritch Melton for pointing this out). More info available from the Sending Push Notifications for Windows Phone page on MSDN.
As you've discovered, the Microsoft Push Notification Service is very strict in what types of messages you can send and receive. The intent of these push notifications is to provide simple push updates and not large amounts of data. The flexible Raw type seems like it would fit the bill until you discover that:
You can use a raw notification to send information to your application. If your application is not currently running, the raw notification is discarded on the Microsoft Push Notification Service and is not delivered to the device.
However, if you send a toast notification to your application, when the user clicks on the toast the application is started. When your application starts, you should check a service and retrieve the data you are trying to send from a web-service or other remote mechanism.