I have no experience with push notifications, but I have been working with iOS for a while. How do I send a push notification to a user (i.e. a little red '1' in the app icon like mail or messages) when a google docs document has been updated? Is there even a way?
You can do this on spreadsheets, but it will require some setup for each person who uses your app.
Follow these instructions to get notifications from Google when
a spreadsheet is modified.
Create a server that will save your e-mail username and password and notice when Google e-mails you a notification of a new
modification.
Set up your server to interact with Apple's Push Notification Service (here's some info)
Apple: Local and Push Notification Programming Guide
Apple: Troubleshooting Push Notifications
Mark Aufflick: Introduction to Apple Push Notification Service
It's complicated, but it could make a killer app. There's also a GMail API you could use to get access to the user's inbox feed.
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I need to implement push notification to our Android App using Xamarin. Here is the process. We have web version which used by the Manager. The Manager creates and assign job to the driver. The App version is used by the Driver where it shows the list of jobs and processes of job until its complete. So, when the Manager assigned the Job to the Driver in the Web version, it will then notified to the Driver in the App version that "new job is assigned". Basically, both the web and app uses same database then we created an api(REST API in MVC C#) to connect and get data from the db to be used in the mobile app.
Can someone recommend to me which Push notification plugin(a plugin or nuget) should I use to do this? Currently, I have set up Push Notifications through App center & Firebase but not sure how this work.
Thank you.
I need to implement push notification to our Android App using Xamarin.
I would suggest you use Firebase for mobile push notifications for Android as it is a product by Google, and was made for mobile applications. For push notifications, you will be using Firebase Cloud Messaging also known as FCM. See to it that you are well versed on how it works before you start coding anything read the documents it answers most of your questions there itself.
The Manager creates and assign job to the driver. The App version is used by the Driver where it shows the list of jobs and processes of a job until its complete. So, when the Manager assigned the Job to the Driver in the Web version, it will then notified to the Driver in the App version that "new job is assigned". Basically, both the web and app use the same database then we created an API(REST API in MVC C#) to connect and get data from the DB to be used in the mobile app.
For this, you will have to check on how to work with Firebase using Rest-API. Once you configure the Rest-API and then apply your business logic to it things will be quite easier than you might have imagined.
Can someone recommend to me which Push notification plugin(a plugin or NuGet) should I use to do this?
My recommendation is quite simple, Do not use any sort of a firebase push notifications plugin!. I have had a very bad past with plugins and ever since then I never recommend fellow developers to use plugins until it is a well-maintained one. I would rather ask you to simply configure Firebase on the basis of the guides that are available online. Like the following Xamarin.Android guide for FCM. It is detailed contains everything that you are looking for and what else I would suggest is you check firebase related answers on SO and you will find that almost everything that is not available in docs is covered around here and in detail. Like the following:
How to handle Firebase Notification i.e. Notification Messages and Data Messages
Push Notification in android with firebase get token
How to send device to device messages using Firebase Cloud Messaging?
Receive push notifications on one android app from two Firebase projects
I would like to know if there's any way to read notifications from discord app to be able to fire actions on my computer. I have been looking for information about action center in windows 10 but it seems there is no public api to access all notifications in the action center just the ones from your app.
On the other hand I have been using WireShark to check the network traffic but it is encripted so, there's no way (that I know) to check the decripted notification message.
I can't use a discord bot to do this. It must be done in my desktop machine.
Is it possible to do this?
I am building a tvOS app for the new Apple TV that needs to get notifications from a server every time that a chat message is sent. This notification is also to be displayed on the Apple TV. As much as I understand push notifications are not allowed with tvOS.
With this being said, are there any alternatives to what I need?
To clarify: This is a chat app that needs to display a notification to the user on the TV screen every time a message is received by the user. The app stays running indefinitely, while showing instant notifications. - I cannot use push notifications.
Please let me know if this makes sense, and thank you in advance for your help!
We recently built an app for apple TV that shows instant messages from different clients connected to our server. A good library that will answer your requirements is socket.io-client
Just google socket.io and learn how it works. Basically, you wait for a connection on your server and then you can send messages to your clients. On the client side (tvOS in your case) you specify what methods to run as response to the different event coming from the server.
Good luck.
is it possible to send push notification for apple without apple device? I would like to send push notification using any page or service from apple, but not using an app created in xcode for example. My app that will get the push is ready and working, but I would like to send the push from a normal page, not from mac or iphone app.
Apple push notifications can only be send to Apple devices (iOS, OSX or Safari for Mac).
However, you can send the notification from any type of operating system using the Apple Push Notification Service API:
https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/networkinginternet/conceptual/remotenotificationspg/Chapters/ApplePushService.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40008194-CH100-SW9
Yes, you can do that for free with using a push notification API, such as Spontit.
See the API docs here: https://api.spontit.com/
See the Python wrapper here: https://github.com/spontit/spontit-api-python-wrapper
I'm playing around with dropbox.js and have created a web-app to take notes and save them to my dropbox account.
Is there a possibility to turn off notifications for only this one App folder without turning off all notifications?
These days, with API v2, you can mute notifications on individual upload operations via the mute parameter on /files/upload.
See https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#files-upload for the detailed API documentation.