Cloud Notifications

General (non-technical) Testing Forum for Moderators / Admins
#1

I am using the Corona Cloud in a limited fashion since the multiplayer stuff did not work out for us, so I have a separate cloud app on google for my game management. Given that, I was trying to use the Corona Cloud to process the “your Turn” push notifications. It does not seem like you can use the Cloud notification processes outside of using the multiplayer game methods. I know that I can use a URL, but that means that I have to keep track of device ID’s separately when they they are all sitting up in the Corona cloud anyway… Am I missing something? 

Mike

#2

Corona Cloud’s push notifications do not support groups yet.  You can send push notifications to all using the push services.  But if you want to send to a limited set, you are going to have to create a match and add the players to it and start the game and then use submitMove to generate a push.

#3

Rob, thanks for the verification.

Mike

#4

I app I am creating is not a game and needs to be able to push to an individual user. I thought Corona Cloud would have worked for me but this limitation caused me to look for other solutions. I ended up setting up a DB with Ruby on Rails and having a simply API to get and post deviceID’s . I then send a POST to Google’s GCM with the payload and deviceid.   I still have to work out all the code for the IOS push and from my experience working with apple it should be hours of fun. 

Chris 

#5

Corona Cloud’s push notifications do not support groups yet.  You can send push notifications to all using the push services.  But if you want to send to a limited set, you are going to have to create a match and add the players to it and start the game and then use submitMove to generate a push.

#6

Rob, thanks for the verification.

Mike

#7

I app I am creating is not a game and needs to be able to push to an individual user. I thought Corona Cloud would have worked for me but this limitation caused me to look for other solutions. I ended up setting up a DB with Ruby on Rails and having a simply API to get and post deviceID’s . I then send a POST to Google’s GCM with the payload and deviceid.   I still have to work out all the code for the IOS push and from my experience working with apple it should be hours of fun. 

Chris