Introducing Push Notifications services: Push for hybrid apps made easy

Push notifications are a convenient way to drive customers back to your app and increase the overall engagement and satisfaction of your app. They can be used for notifying your users for marketing campaigns, promotions, reminders or chat message alerts. You can send any type of data you want to your app and process it on the device in any way you want even if your app is currently not running.

Support for iOS, Android and Windows Phone

Everlive removes the complexity of integrating your app with Apple Push Notification Services (APNs), and Google Cloud Messaging for Android (GCM) to deliver push notifications to your apps. Everlive supports all official type of notifications provided by each vendor both in our SDKs and REST Services:

• Android via GCM – notification key, key name, collapse key, data, delay while idle
• iOS via APNs - alert, badge, sound actions

Powerful targeting

• Device information such as Platform Type, Platform Version, Locale and others.
• User information such as Registration Date, Verified Email, Display Name and all other related information to the user profile.
• Custom parameters defined by the developer for user specific preferences defined in a key value pair like Age : 29, City : London, Interests : Sport News etc.

Updated JavaScript SDK with built-in PhoneGap support - as easy as 1,2,3

Step 1: Initializing the device

The first thing you need to do in your app is to initialize the device for push notifications. This will prompt the user to confirm that he allows push notifications for your app:

 

var el = new Everlive('${ApiKey}');

el.push.currentDevice().enableNotifications(pushSettings, successCallback, errorCallback);

Once this method completes successfully, the device has obtained a push token and is ready to be registered in Everlive.

 

Step 2: Registering the device in Everlive

The next step is to register the device in Everlive where you will be able to keep track of all devices registered for push notifications.

 

el.push.currentDevice().register(customParameters, successCallback, errorCallback);

This method will gather all the required device data and register the device in Everlive. As you can see, you can also specify custom parameters for the registration. The customParameters object does not have any restrictions, it is just a standard JavaScript object. It is used to keep information about the user such as Age, City, Interests and so on. Once you pass this information to Everlive, you can easily create a segment of users based on all parameters stored in this object.

Step 3: Sending push notifications

You have the option to send push notifications both from the user interface of the Everlive Portal, or from a client device using our SDKs or REST services. Here is a code sample demonstrating how you can do this using our JavaScript SDK:

Hybrid app and comprehensive docs to get you started

Our team has created a sample app for Push Notifications that demonstrates how you can initialize, register and send push notifications to your app in Icenium. Note that you have to configure your certificates in both Icenium and Everlive to be able to send push notifications.

Download sample app for Push Notifications from GitHub

Stay tuned for more exciting news coming from our team. If you haven't experienced the power of Icenium, you can sign-up for free now and see just how easy it is to get push notifications working for your app.