Archive for July, 2011

How to implement Push Notifications: Apple iOS

Local notifications and push notifications are both ways for an application that isn’t running in the foreground to let its users know it has something for them. That something could be a message, an impending calendar event, or new data on a remote server. When presented by the operating system, local and push notifications look [...]

How to implement Push Notifications: Android

This tutorial is for getting started with Android Cloud to Device Messaging (C2DM) on Android. In the iOS world this is known as “push notifications”. There are many good resources out there for getting started, but all of them, I felt, were lacking in one way or another, which is why I decided to put together [...]