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

[Sebastien Blanc]

On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 12:08 AM, Burr Sutter <bsutter at redhat.com> wrote:

> I think it would be a huge win for the getting started experience - the
> docs can say
> 1) the iOS device will prompt the end-user (will you accept push
> notifications) - say Yes
> 2) now look for the device token in the admin console - is it there?
> 3) now send it a quick test message, with the app in the foreground,
> background, app shutdown, phone on lockscreen, etc - to learn about the
> behaviors.
>
I like this flow but what you want here is to send only to a single device,
right ? For that we have to solve this ticket before
https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AGPUSH-420

>
>
> On Feb 23, 2014, at 2:15 PM, Sebastien Blanc <scm.blanc at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> So I sart playing with it>
> If you browse to http://newpush-sblanc.rhcloud.com/ with admin / 123 and
> select (or create) an application, in the "Send notifications ..." section
> you will see a link "test Message", that will open an overlay with a
> default send message that is valid. Change it (add criteria / custom
> values) or just hit the "Send test Message" and it will send a push
> notification to the registred devices.
> :)
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 1:52 PM, Luke Holmquist <lholmqui at redhat.com>wrote:
>
>> Let's do it.  I was asked that question at my talk the other night.
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Feb 23, 2014, at 7:06 AM, 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
>>
>> Any thoughts?
>>
>>
>> Greetings,
>> Matthias
>>
>>
>> [AGPUSH-38] https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AGPUSH-38
>>
>>
>> --
>> Matthias Wessendorf
>>
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>>
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