Haroldiv
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Joined: Wed Apr 09, 2014 4:48 pm

Push notification questions

Hello,

I have been checking out your service and it seems fantastic. I do not have experience building apps but it looks like you guys will be perfect for me to get started and have the tools that will allow the app to grow as I learn. Before I get started I wanted to make sure your service will meet my needs. I would like to be able to do the following.

Create a basic application available on android, ios and windows mobile.
Allow customers to "subscribe" to single and/or multiple categories of push notifications.
Allow me to send out push notifications to customers who have subscribed to those specific categories.

Hypothetical Example:

App would have 6 categories. Sports news, Financial news, Business news, World news, US news, Science news

Customer A downloads the app and wants push notifications for only sports news
Customer B downloads the app and wants push notifications for all 6 categories

I send out 6 push notifications, one for each category. Customer A receives only Sports notification while Customer B receives all 6.

Is this possible natively inside your platform? I see that there are third party options like Parse.com that would allow this but I would like to keep it simple if I can. Thanks!

Kateryna Grynko
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Joined: Thu Nov 15, 2012 9:13 am

Push notification questions

Hi Harold,

Yes, you can do this. You would need to store a list of categories and users subscribed to them. Then send a Push notification to
those users who are subscribed to the category.

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