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ccchh / angel-news-hub

Newshub for chaos-angels. Plan is to announce upcoming shifts, meetings and other news trough a socket.io based service. Messages will be pushed to browsers and possibly native Android and iOS apps.
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Deliver push notifications to iPhones #3

Open wtimme opened 11 years ago

wtimme commented 11 years ago

I did some research on delivering push notifications to iPhone. There's no way around Apple's push notification server. "Prowl" (http://prowlapp.com/) provides an API for pushing notifications to the device but requires the user to purchase their application for 2,69 € which does not seem like a good idea.

It seems as if we had two alternatives:

What do you think? Does anyone have an idea on how to push notifications to Android?

zeidlos commented 11 years ago

Afaik we already talked about having someone developing a native app that'll utilize the internal message center. But before we send someone out on doing this, we'll have to create some data-formats first.

prowlapp.com won't be anything I'd like to force on people.

zeidlos commented 11 years ago

What about using phonegap for this: http://phonegap.com/ ?

wtimme commented 11 years ago

@marudor mentioned that "Someone else from Düsseldorf started on an iOS version." but did not provide any detailled information. Do you have any idea about their application?