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Sreelatha Sankaranarayanan
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Sreelatha Sankaranarayanan

Sreelatha Sankaranarayanan has close to 16 years of experience in software engineering. She has been with Phoenix Global Solutions (now Tata Consultancy Services) for close to 2.5 years. She is currently with IBM India and has been with them for the last 13.5 years. During her career, she has been part of product development, support, and test teams, primarily working on enterprise middleware products. In her most recent role, she was responsible for evangelizing IBM's cloud platform as-a-service, Bluemix, and has worked with System Integrators, academia, and IBM partners to enable and support them with the adoption of IBM's cloud platform as-a-service, Bluemix. She has coauthored a redbook entitled B2B Solutions using WebSphere Partner Gateway v6.0, authored some developerWorks articles, and some blog posts on the Mobile Enterprise Application Platform (MEAP), Internet of Things (IoT), and cloud platform as-a-service (Bluemix). You can find her on Twitter at @sreelathas and on LinkedIn at https://in.linkedin.com/in/sreelathas.
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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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Sreelatha Sankaranarayanan

Sreelatha Sankaranarayanan has close to 16 years of experience in software engineering. She has been with Phoenix Global Solutions (now Tata Consultancy Services) for close to 2.5 years. She is currently with IBM India and has been with them for the last 13.5 years. During her career, she has been part of product development, support, and test teams, primarily working on enterprise middleware products. In her most recent role, she was responsible for evangelizing IBM's cloud platform as-a-service, Bluemix, and has worked with System Integrators, academia, and IBM partners to enable and support them with the adoption of IBM's cloud platform as-a-service, Bluemix. She has coauthored a redbook entitled B2B Solutions using WebSphere Partner Gateway v6.0, authored some developerWorks articles, and some blog posts on the Mobile Enterprise Application Platform (MEAP), Internet of Things (IoT), and cloud platform as-a-service (Bluemix). You can find her on Twitter at @sreelathas and on LinkedIn at https://in.linkedin.com/in/sreelathas.
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