[aerogear-dev] UnifiedPush: Sending notifications from the AdminUI

Tue Feb 25 08:48:29 EST 2014

On 25 Feb 2014, at 14:36, Hylke Bons <hbons at redhat.com> wrote:

> It's a good start.
> Before designing the actual form, maybe we should take a step back and think about why we'd want to send a message?
> 
> I can think of some cases:
> 
> 1. Testing whether your newly created app variant and push network combination work correctly. It's good to have the immediate confirmation right after you've created a new application variant and have configured a push network. We could have some kind of test dialogue, which can be skipped.
> 2. Debugging network issues and general testing. A fixed message could do the trick, but people may want to test all kinds of content to a variety of devices to see if there are any issues.
> 3. Code generation. Other than sending messages, Sebastien's form looks like a good way to generate code that the backend can use directly. It could be a sort of small visual design tool, to make using the UPS even easier.
Scaffolding in the cloud.
I wouldn’t have thought of this one…

4. no backend app

> 
> There may be more?
> Thoughts?
> 
> Hylke
> 
> 
> 
> On 25/02/2014 09:06, Sebastien Blanc wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I started to work on a new "Compose Message" page. The idea is that you can add criterias to your message , as you can see here on this screenshot : 
>> 
>> I've also deployed a live version but *DICSLAIMER* this is just UI / Mockup work sending will not work for now : http://newpush-sblanc.rhcloud.com  => Select an App and you will have a "Copomse Message" link on the next page.
>> 
>> Feedback is welcome.
>> Sebi
>> 
>> 
>> On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 1:25 PM, Sebastien Blanc <scm.blanc at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 12:52 PM, Hylke Bons <hbons at redhat.com> wrote:
>> Sounds good.
>> Let me know if you need any help with the mockup designs. ;)
>> Sure, I will ASAP submit a "raw" mockup on which you can work on.
>> What I would like is a dedicated page for the "Compose Push Message" feature.
>> 
>> We wil have a criteria section to choose to who we want to send the message. I really like for instance how Jira do that like here http://postimg.org/image/5ur2j9wh5/ 
>> In our case we could have the drop downs for : "Variants", "Device Type", "Alias" and "Categories"
>> And then below w will have a free text area to send a custom value.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Hylke
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>> 
>> 
>> On 23/02/2014 12:08, Sebastien Blanc wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 1:04 PM, Matthias Wessendorf <matzew at apache.org> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> over the weekend I spoke w/ a friend: His company is doing some mobile (iOS/Android) apps which also support receiving push notifications.
>>> 
>>> Two examples he told me. After receiving push notification:
>>> 
>>> * One of their apps basically fetches the latest version of a CSV file, stored on a public HTTP Server.
>>> 
>>> * Another app is used to tell sales guys new brochure files (PDF) are available on a protected resource of a webserver (which they _can_ than download from w/in the app, if the like to)
>>> 
>>> The company build a simple console (PHP) which allows them to send new push messages, when ever their customers want to.
>>> 
>>> I showed them our UnifiedPush Server and its usage via our AeroDoc example (iOS / backend). They really liked the UnifiedPush Server. Especially that it does store all the device metadata. 
>>> 
>>> But since a lot of their mobile apps don't have a backend requirement, they would still have to use their own console (which than connects to UPS)  for submitting all the push messages they want.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> This brings me to [AGPUSH-38] and I really think we should implement that feature. Not only for sending test messages! If our UnifiedPush Server allows its users to simple send push messages to all of their mobile apps, it would make the server even more attractive.
>>> 
>>> I regret a bit that I was against [AGPUSH-38] in the beginning, I guess that's due to my Java enterprise background, where you typically find complex setups, and server talk to servers :-(
>>> 
>>> Anyways, now I really think that the UPS has to have such a 'send push' facility inside of the Admin UI :-) I believe that we could reach way more potential users with something like that
>>> +9001 and I already started thinking about this for a while. I will try to submit some mockups/POCs this week so we can discuss that and I have  quickly a first working version on master.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Any thoughts?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Greetings,
>>> Matthias 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> [AGPUSH-38] https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AGPUSH-38
>>> 
>>> 
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>>> 
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