Push Notifications

@duneunit - this feature was announced months ago. Should be polished as dimond right now. [import]uid: 12704 topic_id: 7853 reply_id: 72809[/import]

news about push notification? [import]uid: 23063 topic_id: 7853 reply_id: 72877[/import]

Push?

We don’t need to stinking push notification?

See for yourself.

http://yfrog.com/mryoqtz

Push will be pushed when ready in the next few days.

Video shows iOS push. No Android ETA.

C [import]uid: 24 topic_id: 7853 reply_id: 73652[/import]

OMG, time to convince my company to switch to Corona instead of iOS. [import]uid: 13381 topic_id: 7853 reply_id: 73670[/import]

Wow, next few days?. Awesome Carlos !!. Waiting for Daily Builds this weeks to see all the new features [import]uid: 55808 topic_id: 7853 reply_id: 73682[/import]

Very Cool!
Looking forward to being pushy :slight_smile:

Love the world premiere video BTW, keeping it fun is the way to work! [import]uid: 100134 topic_id: 7853 reply_id: 73698[/import]

next few days !! awesome. Thanks Carlos.
I’ll be waiting … [import]uid: 103124 topic_id: 7853 reply_id: 73764[/import]

This is my First Post.

It Looks like I may pay for Corona now. This is one I have been waiting for.
I have 5 apps in the App store made with GameSalad and I have been debating which system to pay for. I have ported one of my apps to Corona already and it runs well in the trial build. It’s my simplest app but it’s looks and works a lot better than the GameSalad Version. I’m a python programmer so Lua isn’t to hard for me, it’s just different enough to have to keep fixing typos.

I saw in the video it was a php script that was triggering the notification. Was that from a local server? I had been looking into using google App Engine as my backed for push and game mechanics. I was wondering if had planned on partnering with someone like Urban Airship to do easy wide adoption of push with there api? The Basic plan (free) looks quite appealing to start with. [import]uid: 110373 topic_id: 7853 reply_id: 73836[/import]

Carlos said is remote push notifications so it will work from remote servers i think.

I don’t know if app needs to be on background, i hope not :slight_smile: [import]uid: 55808 topic_id: 7853 reply_id: 73840[/import]

The Corona side of things is the ability to receive a notification and do something with it. You need something on your send to send the signal in the first place.

The push comes from a remote server to Apple’s APNS. You can run your own free remote server with php on you local box for testing, however for an app out in the wild it would be more reliable to have the remote server be hosted rather than running from your cable modem.

Easy APNS is one that you can run yourself with PHP & MySQL if you want to dedicate a server or a virtual server. This may have been what was used in the video on yfrog.
http://www.easyapns.com/

Urban Airship is a popular dedicated host for the remote server portion, it has free and paid plans and is supposed to be very simple to use.
http://urbanairship.com/
This tutorial shows how to make a very simple push app with the full SDK, it goes into setting up push certificates and Urban Airship, I would imagine those steps will directly translate to what we will have to do with Corona’s push implementation.
http://mobile.tutsplus.com/tutorials/iphone/iphone-sdk_apns/

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Ok build 707 is out for suscribers :slight_smile: with this [import]uid: 55808 topic_id: 7853 reply_id: 74108[/import]

how can I use this remote push notification?

have any sample?
thanks [import]uid: 23063 topic_id: 7853 reply_id: 74120[/import]

Awesome can’t wait for documentation and start using it ! [import]uid: 3638 topic_id: 7853 reply_id: 74139[/import]

Waiting for documentation too. I want to use the new facebook sso and push features ! [import]uid: 55808 topic_id: 7853 reply_id: 74210[/import]

carlos… this rocks that push is here…
how do we use it… [import]uid: 18783 topic_id: 7853 reply_id: 74241[/import]

push it out !

docs coming soon (or blog)

c. [import]uid: 24 topic_id: 7853 reply_id: 74243[/import]

nothing yet? :frowning: [import]uid: 23063 topic_id: 7853 reply_id: 74589[/import]

Docs have been pushed!

Daily build 711 (like the convenience store, 7-11) is the one you want

http://blog.anscamobile.com/2011/12/push-notifications-for-ios-in-corona-sdk/ [import]uid: 26 topic_id: 7853 reply_id: 75125[/import]

Walter,
If I read the documents correctly then it looks like I could register the device token with Urban Airship’s HTTP JSON API. and skip the whole running an php server myself bit. Since the production php server would take in URL or POST variables like you said. This however is where we run into a roadblock, Urban Airship uses mostly POST but needs PUT for the token registration bit. In the comments for Network Request I can see that PUT is not officially supported yet and it may or may not be a low priority feature request.

Any Chance the ease of using something like Urban Airship for Push would get the HTTP PUT type higher on the priority list?

Was there a feature request ever made for it?

Thanks for the great new feature,
Brad
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Same here. I’d really like to use Urban Airship for my Push, since I don’t know much about running my own server etc. I’d rather have them take care of everything. I think this is really needed since lots of people don’t want to be running their own server to send out thousands (possible millions) of push notifications per month. [import]uid: 51654 topic_id: 7853 reply_id: 75301[/import]