Apple Push Notification service (APNs) - for notifying iphone app users about latest and interesting things happening even if they are not using App
Apple Push Notification service There are thousands of applications available for iphone and android devices. Here we will be discussing about the Apple Push Notification service which helps to alert user of an iphone application about new data from Application provider. Suppose an Online magazine website is providing an iphone app to it users, where they can browse their magazine and download it their iphone. When a new online edition is uploaded, the website will trigger the Notification service to send message / notification to its iphone app users related to availablity of new edition. So that they are informed about latest updates on the site. Apple Push Notification service transports and routes a notification from a given provider to a given device. Here what happens is , when an app is installed on iphone, it asks whether user wish to get push notifications, If user confirms then a device token is generated for that device and it is send to the app provider's server ...
