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Learning IBM Bluemix

You're reading from  Learning IBM Bluemix

Product type Book
Published in Oct 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785887741
Pages 382 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Sreelatha Sankaranarayanan Sreelatha Sankaranarayanan
Profile icon Sreelatha Sankaranarayanan

Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Learning IBM Bluemix
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Saying Hello to IBM Bluemix 2. Building and Deploying Your First Application on IBM Bluemix 3. Extending an Application and Configuring for Continuous Delivery Using DevOps Services 4. Leveraging On-Premise Software for Applications on Bluemix 5. Scaling Applications in Bluemix 6. Monitoring and Management in Bluemix 7. Compute Options on Bluemix 8. Security Services on Bluemix 9. Microservices-based Application Development on Bluemix 10. Mobile Application Development on Bluemix

Integrating Push Notifications to the application


In the previous section, we learned how to create a mobile application from a template, how to customize it, and how to download it and work with it on your local Android Studio. In this section, we will learn how to extend your mobile application so that it can receive push notifications from the server.

Push Notifications is an asynchronous way of sending messages to application users' devices. To enable this, we will use the Push Notifications service on Bluemix.

Creating the Push Notifications service instance

Let us first create the Push Notifications service instance. Follow the steps given here to create the service instance:

  1. Log in to Bluemix, and select the Mobile category to go to the Mobile dashboard:

  2. From here you can add a mobile service instance by clicking the Get started now! icon in the top-right corner, as shown in the following screenshot:

  3. Clicking the Get started now! icon will display the mobile services available on Bluemix...

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