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Todor
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Todor asked on 14 Jun 2012, 03:32 PM
Hello and congrats for the great product!
I like the agility you can develop applications that look like native.
However every coin has two sides, so:

1.How can you push notifications to the users of an application?
2.What are the drawbacks of using Cordoba/Kendo instead of native applications? What limitations can I expect?

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sdobrev
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answered on 14 Jun 2012, 10:06 PM
Hi Todor,

Thank you for your kind words. This kind of feedback keep us highly motivated that Icenium can bring a lot of value and solve a problem many of us have.

Now onto your questions:
1. Are you talking about Apple's push notifications or a third party service like Pushwoosh for example?
2. This is very good question, right on spot. You can check this blog post by D7 which shares more details about hybrid mobile applications and their strengths and weaknesses. 
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Todor
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answered on 14 Jun 2012, 10:24 PM
That is just great!
I think your 2nd answer gave me enough info to figure out the 1st one =)

It turns out, that if your app doesn't need ultra slick graphics (like for games),
hybrid is the right way to go!

I start to adore Icenium more and more. If only I know when the beta is targeted to finish.. =)
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answered on 27 Jun 2012, 03:30 PM
Pushwood seems nice, but there is also Urban Airship (http://urbanairship.com/) with the first 1M notifications for free.

It seems we need access to AndroidManifest.xml and include java files.

Would be very nice to have in Icenium. If not, we will be stuck with tools like Eclypse.
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sdobrev
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answered on 27 Jun 2012, 04:23 PM
@J.D. Do you have some real experience with one of those push notifications providers? If so what do you like about them? What do you find missing?
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Jan-Dirk
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answered on 27 Jun 2012, 05:32 PM
No, not yet. If this would be supported in Icenium then I would postpone the release of the App to put push notifications in it.

I am working on an application that is a kind of catalog with new products. If I could push new products to the App that would be a nice addition.

Both push systems seem easy to implement.
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answered on 04 Dec 2012, 04:09 PM
Stefan, what about if I want to use my own solution that works with the Apple Google push servers, instead of Pushwoosh, Urban Airship or anything like that. Does Cordova have out of the box support for that or are there any good plugins?
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Evgeni "Zammy" Petrov
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answered on 06 Dec 2012, 01:56 PM
Hi Lino,

 Unfortunately push notifications are not supported by Cordova out-of-the-box. This features is implemented by community plugins. We are working on adding support for more and more plugins. "Push notifications" is also in our backlog.
Currently we are not sure if people want generic support or some 3rd party service such as "Pushwoosh" or "Urban Airship". You can go and vote on our feedback portal here.
There is a item created for third-party services. There does not seem to be one for generic push notification support. You can create one for it.

Thank you for checking out Icenium.

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Evgeni "Zammy" Petrov
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LVELEV
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answered on 06 Dec 2012, 02:16 PM
Thank you Zammy

here is the feature request. The first link - https://feedback.telerik.com doesn't work, voted on the other feature request as well. 

Can you recommend a plugin that I can use right now? We went through the trouble of fixing this in Titanium ourselves already and I'm surprised that such a basic scenario doesn't work out of the box.

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answered on 06 Dec 2012, 02:42 PM
Unfortunately Evgeni was wrong, there is a feedback item with 23 votes for Generic Plugin support here: https://feedback.telerik.com/Project/87/Feedback/Details/879-generic-phonegap-plugin-support

Please be sure to continue voting there and not in the new feedback item.
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Steve
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answered on 05 Jul 2013, 12:33 PM
Hi guys,

This is just a follow up for those of you who might have missed the introduction of generic Push Notifications in Icenium. Check out the Push Notifications With Cordova & Icenium blog post for detailed steps and code.

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Steve
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