I need to implement push/C2DM notifications on my website, I installed the Android 3.0 platform sdk, simulator, and I installed the application from an .apk file.
Now, I'm using a ZF powered sites and I want to test my notification, is it possible through the simulator?
I didn't write the actual Android Application, and I'm not able to do anything on it, but what should I know to use it with PHP?
Thank you
You cannot push C2DM messages to third-party applications - not without their active participation. Google's technical implementation explicitly forbids that.
An app specifies a Google account it wishes to receive notifications from; in order to send notifications, you need to log on with a Google account. For everything to work, the account has to be the same. So unless you know what account does the app wants messages from, and you know the password to that account, no C2DM for you.
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I want to make an App with push notifications, which will not stop in Android phone, exactly like in WhatsApp.
I can easily make a php API for notification on my xyz web hosting to send push notifications to my application.
But I don't know which methodology to use. I am a beginner in Android App development. I want to make the App using Android Studio.
I appreciated if you could share any example source code.
In this case using google fire base is a good choice.search about it.
I'm doing a tiny personal project involving an Arduino and a PHP backend. I want to send a push notification from the PHP backend to my Android phone using Firebase Cloud Messaging. This question is specifically about FCM - I don't want to use any other services like Blynk, etc. I also do not want to send the notification directly from the Arduino, but rather from the PHP backend.
Can I send a FCM notification to my phone without having to create an app to receive it? I'm logged in with a Google/Gmail account on the phone, and I have no need to target any other users than myself.
Can I send a FCM notification to my phone without having to create an app to receive it?
No, this is not possible. It would open users up to some pretty hefty abuse.
In order to receive your notifications, the user must have your app installed.
Mind you, this can be a pretty minimal app, since the default implementation of FCM already displays notifications to the user if the app is not active. So really all you have to do is create an empty app that includes the Firebase Cloud Messaging SDK.
I'm developing and news app in ios so,I have prepared the restful service in Php for ios application
Now I have to integrated the push notification features in my application ,I have the developer account of ios.
I have already tried so many of examples but didn't get the results
All the time I get the error for the ssl failed, so I want to know is the compulsory to have the ssl certifications to that domain from which I'm using for sending the push notification to the ios devices
Plz share the steps to make this job successful, you suggestion will be appreciated
Thanks
I tried searching these issues. Some sites say I need to do some stuff with php in order to make 3rd party server while others don't mention anything. some says it need JSON. Guide me please. PS I am a beginner and know java, XML,SQL only.
You should only need one server. The second server you are reading about may be the Google GCM cloud server? When I did a GCM project a few years ago, I had one server, it happened to be a App Engine instance. It generated events and sent them to Google via the GCM api and then onto onto the device. I don't remember it being that difficult.
I did have more than one server in the mix though, there were others that sent messages to the AppEngine server, but it was not required to send a GCM message.
Google Cloud Messaging (GCM) is a service that enables developers to send data from servers to both Android applications or Chrome apps and extensions.
So if you want to send data to the users of your App then you must have an interface or dashboard from where you can send some data (typically push notification) to the users of your app.
This dashboard (server from which you can send data) can be developed by using PHP or any script languages.
Now a though can come up in your mind:
"I am suppose to develop both the mobile app and the server then what
role does GCM play?"
Yes, GCM is playing a vital role indeed. The server we have to develop is just to design an interface so that you can type your message/notification and select the recipients. Rest of the part of (managing the queue, communication with the apps checking for authentication and all other stuffs will be done by mighty GCM )
In order to have an bird-eye overview you can take a look on this image collected form android hive
Server side coding is doesn't need you to be expert in php. So you can go through to this article. It helped me a lot to learn.
I have built an ecommerce website in CakePHP and MySQL which takes orders and stores them in db. I've been told that I need to create a web service for sending notification to desktop/via email which would alert us of any order given instantly and would also provide us with order details. Do i need to study up on web services, SOAP, GET POST etc. or can I do it with some easier method? What would be a secure and fast response way of receiving such a notification from the web application? Thanks in advance :)
A webservice would be useful the other way round. If a third-party entity wishes to access your website as a service without accessing HTML pages, yes in that case, creating a webservice on your end will be useful.
I recommend you for instance to see the RESTful webservice interface to stackoverflow/stackexchange itself to understand this concept: https://api.stackexchange.com/docs.
In your case, I can't see how webservices would be involved. If you just need to send emails from your website, it can be done directly with the PHP mail() function, or using a mailer like PHPMailer.
Desktop notifications are an entirely different matter, because you need a client software.
I haven't dug pretty far in that topic myself, but here are a few pointers:
A popular Desktop Notification software for MacOSX is Growl which has been unofficially ported to Windows: http://www.growlforwindows.com/gfw/
There is a PHP API to send messages to Growl clients: http://clickontyler.com/php-growl/.