Thank you for clarifying this! Its a MASSIVE weight off my mind 
Just one more note on this. I got Kii cloud working for iOs push, and donāt foresee a problem getting it to work for Android as they use GCM. Their backend is not nearly as good visually as Parseās, but if it helps with Android push, it may be a win. I am integrating iZhongWen with it anyway b/c I want their services for that particular app as I move to Asian markets. Something to look at.
Hereās another option, QuickBlox, which has a REST API so you can use it with Corona ā¦
http://quickblox.com/modules/messages/
They have a free tier with 10 Gb traffic/storage, unlimited API calls, unlimited push notiļ¬cations per month.
I havenāt tried Push Notifications yet but I have successfully used their service for content delivery (e.g. for IAP) in a series of Corona apps Iām developing.
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I just posted a series of Corona tutorials, one of which is how to integrate Parse push for iOs:Ā http://www.ladeezfirstmedia.com/2013/08/01/tutorial-part-5-push-it-real-good-with-push-notifications-using-corona-sdk-and-parse-com/Ā if it is useful to you.
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best,
Jen
Hi Jen,
āShameless plugā this isnāt, when the tutorials are useful. Weāve posted links to them in Corona University, in case people need to reference them in the future and donāt want to bother bookmarking this thread.
http://www.coronalabs.com/resources/tutorials/communication-and-social-media/
Brent
Sorry for dragging this old thread up. I thought it might be a good time to round up some updates. Any new services? Any further success with services like Parse on Android? Thanks for all that you might be able to share.Ā
wellllll if I made a plugin for Parse the whole world would be full of flowers, nāest-ce pas?Ā
In the meantime Kii works for push for both iOs and Android. But their backend is considerably worse than Parse.Ā
best,
Jen
Yup. It would!Ā
Still, in the meanwhile Kii sounds full of promise. Will look into it asap. Do they have Corona SDK stuff figured out or did you have to play a few rounds of guess the API with their stuff? Thanks for sharing.
PS. Regarding back end prettynessā¦ Who cares as long as its reliable and cheap. If it all works as it needs to then my customers are not supposed to know its there or ever get to see it.
PS2ā¦ Did you all see the announcement about Safari desktop push messages for OSX? Itāll be interesting to see how we can tie this in as well.Ā
Iām using Netmera and right now its timing out onĀ https://api.netmera.com/push/1.2/notification and nothing getting sent. At least 2 hours now. Iām not in production yet but worrying.
@marcior Are you using with Android as well?
Using AWS for both iOS & Android, but I have the app communicating with my own server, and then my server communicates with AWS.
Sorry for dragging this old thread up. I thought it might be a good time to round up some updates. Any new services? Any further success with services like Parse on Android? Thanks for all that you might be able to share.Ā
wellllll if I made a plugin for Parse the whole world would be full of flowers, nāest-ce pas?Ā
In the meantime Kii works for push for both iOs and Android. But their backend is considerably worse than Parse.Ā
best,
Jen
Yup. It would!Ā
Still, in the meanwhile Kii sounds full of promise. Will look into it asap. Do they have Corona SDK stuff figured out or did you have to play a few rounds of guess the API with their stuff? Thanks for sharing.
PS. Regarding back end prettynessā¦ Who cares as long as its reliable and cheap. If it all works as it needs to then my customers are not supposed to know its there or ever get to see it.
PS2ā¦ Did you all see the announcement about Safari desktop push messages for OSX? Itāll be interesting to see how we can tie this in as well.Ā
Iām using Netmera and right now its timing out onĀ https://api.netmera.com/push/1.2/notification and nothing getting sent. At least 2 hours now. Iām not in production yet but worrying.
@marcior Are you using with Android as well?
Using AWS for both iOS & Android, but I have the app communicating with my own server, and then my server communicates with AWS.
Apologies for resurrecting an old thread - but just noticed that Parse have announced support for GCM. I donāt have a clue about Push on Android, but seem to remembering people saying it wasnāt possible via Parse due to the lack of GCM support? Am I correct in this assumption; is it now possible?
EDIT
On a closer inspection it looks as though itās still reliant on using Parseās Android SDK.
Looks like we are waiting for them to allow this functionality to work with their REST APIā¦but theyāre moving in the right direction, I have full confidence.Ā
Wasnāt that recent announcement from Parse confusing?Ā