Push Notifications

DEMO

Features

• Send push notifications with the mobile push notification service, APNs. By this push notifications, it can be exchange the information in real time.

  • Notify event message to the indivisual by sending the push notification from backend service, called Risk Notifier, to the mobile phone app in order to control the indicator device of the shop officer.
  • Broadcast the messages from the backend service.

• Mobile can receive the push notifications without running the mobile app, as log as it's installed.

• The mobile app can receive push notifications when running in the background as well as when running in the foreground.

• Communications between back-end services and APNs, and between APNs and mobile phones are encrypted by TLS.

Requirements

Development Environment

• IBM Cloud
  • Push Notifications
  • Cloud Functions
  • Cloudant
• Xcode 11
• Apple Enterprise Developer Program

Production Environment

• Mobile Phone
  • iOS only (Android is out of scope)
  • Install the mobile app
  • register the mobile phone device ID to the APNs.

Installations and Configurations

• STEP1: The step to setup and configure Push Notificatin related services
• STEP2: The step to create the action of IBM Cloud Functions, whitch can send the push notifications. See the risk-notifier repository for specific instructions.

Usage

Interface

• The action of IBM Cloud Functions

  Parameter name	Description	Type	Mandatry/Optional
  messageText	The body text of the push notifications	string	mandatry
  apnstitle	The title text of the push notifications	string	optional
  targetDeviceIds	The list of device ID of target mobile	string	optional
  apnsType	['DEFAULT', 'MIXED', 'SILENT']	string	optional

Use Case

• CASE1: Send the push notification message to the indivisual mobile phone by specifying the device ID.
• CASE2: Send the push notification messages to all registered mobile phone devices.

Licence

• see LISENCE