Hi,
as Corinne mentioned on a different thread, w/ iOS8 Apple introduces new UIUserNotificationActions, that can be grouped into a category (UIUserNotificationCategory).
For remote notifications (aka push) those actions can be trigger by sending this JSON payload to APNs:
aps {
alert: {...},
category: "SOMETHING"
}
I'd like to add that feature to the UnifiedPush Server and the Java/Node Senders.
Our own message format (see [2]) has already a categoies element, but that is used for filtering/tagging; That element is NOT related to the actual payload of the message (which the apple action/category is all about).
Now, I'd like to introduce an "action-category" element inside of the "message" object, like:
message: {
.......
"alert":"HELLO!",
.......
"action-category":"SOMETHING"
}
This value will be send down to the actual device (by Apple) as part of the message. The name is perhaps a bit Apple-oriented, but I think it may fit other platforms as well...
Looks like Summers/Passos want to do similar for Android (see [3]).
What do you think ?
-Matthias
[1] What's New in iOS Notifications on: