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

[Sebastien Blanc]

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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