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IBM Worklight Mobile Application Development Essentials

You're reading from  IBM Worklight Mobile Application Development Essentials

Product type Book
Published in Feb 2014
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781782177609
Pages 144 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Push notification


Mobile OS vendors such as Apple, Google, Microsoft, and others provide a free of cost feature through which a message can be delivered to any device running on the respective OS. The OS vendors send a message commonly known as a push message to a device for a particular app. It is not required for an app to be running in order to receive a push message.

A push message can contain the following:

  • Alerts: These would appear in the form of text messages

  • Badges: These are small, circular marks on the app icon

  • Sounds: These are audio alerts

Messages will appear in the notification center (for iOS) and notification bar (for Android). IBM Worklight provides a unified push notification architecture that simplifies sending push messages across multiple devices running on different platforms. It provides a central management console to manage mobile vendor services, for example, APNS and GCM, in the background.

Worklight provides the following push notification benefits:

  • Easy to use...

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