Free and Paid App Store and Google Play Versions - Notifications

[Bruce Stuart]

I have an App that I've published to the three stores. I've created a 'FREE' version for the Windows store without breathing too hard - since that's actually the easiest store to publish to.

Now - onto the Google and Apple Stores. My app has notifications that it uses. I want-need to have the free and paid versions share the same data store - so I've just imported my paid product back in to Appery - and renamed it with the same name - and added the suffix 'FREE'. I've changed the package identifiers etc. for the google and Apple stores.

Now - as question - if I want to share the data - and therefore the notificiation keys - can I do that??? or do I have a problem here??

I'm guessing that I can't do that (share the same notification key across 2 different apps - even though they've got about 3 lines of code difference between the two)....

Can you confirm that??

If I do get two different notification keys - I'd still like the users to end up in the same user store --- possible?? and I'd like to use the same server script to send the notifications from my shared store of users & user devices ( a table I made up - but works perfectly for notifying the same user across multiple devices).... I'm assuming that when I do the 'push' notification to my user that using the 'free' version - I'd be switching back and forth between the free APP key and the paid APP key?? (Since they are different binaries living on user devices)... correct?

I've built the infrastructure unknowingly to support this (when the user logs in - the user table gets updated with whether or not they are using the paid or free version)....

Please advise......

Thanks !
Bruce

[Bruce Stuart]

Hey all,

Any chance you guys could look at this today? I have a submission that's pending an answer here - and it would be great to get this started asap....

thanks in advance,

Bruce

[Alena Prykhodko]

Dear Bruce,

Sorry for radio silence here. Working on it.
We will update as soon as possible.

[Egor Kotov6832188]

Hello Bruce,
Can you confirm that??
yes, you can use it for both apps

[Bruce Stuart]

Egor,

Thanks - sorry for the delay here --- off working on another project. Perfect - I'm off coding the solution that way now...

thanks again,

Bruce

[Bruce Stuart]

Egor and Alena,

No - it appears you CANNOT share the same notification key. You get blocked in appery - when you try to set up push notifications for your app - you can't select the same database to host the notifications out of - that you did for your paid app.

See the attached screen show - I have 4 databases in my account - however - the one that I need to select in the dropdown shown below - does not appear (aka - a database called "iLater'.

Help ? Please don't tell me it's not possible to have a free and a paid version working from the same devices table....

[Bruce Stuart]

Any update on status ?

[Serhii Kulibaba]

Hello Bruce,

You can use the same database for more than one application with push notification.

[Bruce Stuart]

Sergiy,

The UI will not allow that to happen. Have you tried it?

When i try it - the Builder will NOT let that happen (See my screen print above). Please advise me of step by step how to do it so I can understand what steps I'm missing?

If you've already linked a database - on the push notification tab - you cannot re-use it again for notifications.

Yes you can use it for the APP - but if you are trying to use the same DB for notifications - a very common practice especially if you have a free and a paid version - it does not appear that you can.

Please advise.

Bruce

[Serhii Kulibaba]

preIf you've already linked a database - on the push notification tab - you cannot use it again for notifications.

Yes you can use it for the APP - but if you are trying to use the same DB for notifications - a very common practice especially if you have a free and a paid version - it does not appear that you can.
/pre

Please let me know the difference between "push notification tab" and "notifications".

Do you mean after unlinking DB you can't use the same DB in other app?