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I'm considering Ionic for a simple web-based music recommendation app that I'm doing as a side project. For now I am using vanilla Cordova and it has been work

I'm considering Ionic for a simple web-based music recommendation app that I'm doing as a side project. For now I am using vanilla Cordova and it has been working fine... Except for iOS notifications, which are a bit of a nightmare to set up. H as anyone had good success doing push notifications via Ionic? I fear that by choosing it I would still have to go through the same complicated process for getting the APNS certificates to work properly, in which case I don't really see the benefit

joeyspn 11y ago
We're in the middle of a new project that makes heavy use of PUSH notifications. We've looked into all the possibilities and have concluded that our best option is GCM [0] (which recently added iOS support), plus a custom manager with node-gcm [1]. That works best for us (pricing, etc), but Ionic also has an extremely easy to setup push service [2], that'll be free during alpha. Another option is pushwoosh or building your backend with Parse (also does push)... Hope it helps [0] https://developers.google.com/cloud-messaging/gcm https://developers.google.com/cloud-messaging/gcm [1] https://github.com/ToothlessGear/node-gcm https://github.com/ToothlessGear/node-gcm [2] https://apps.ionic.io/landing/push https://apps.ionic.io/landing/push
mkeung 11y ago
http://ngcordova.com/docs/plugins/pushNotifications/ http://ngcordova.com/docs/plugins/pushNotifications/ I didn't have any issues using the above. You still need some sort of server (i've used rails, ex: https://github.com/rpush/rpush https://github.com/rpush/rpush) to send the push notifications (and setup the apns certs), but the above will capture them on your ionic app itself.
Encosia 11y ago
What trouble are you running into with APN? I just went through that exercise with a cordova app a few weeks ago, and might be able to help if you need it. My email is in my profile.

joeyspn 11y ago

We're in the middle of a new project that makes heavy use of PUSH notifications. We've looked into all the possibilities and have concluded that our best option is GCM [0] (which recently added iOS support), plus a custom manager with node-gcm [1]. That works best for us (pricing, etc), but Ionic also has an extremely easy to setup push service [2], that'll be free during alpha. Another option is pushwoosh or building your backend with Parse (also does push)... Hope it helps [0] https://developers.google.com/cloud-messaging/gcm https://developers.google.com/cloud-messaging/gcm [1] https://github.com/ToothlessGear/node-gcm https://github.com/ToothlessGear/node-gcm [2] https://apps.ionic.io/landing/push https://apps.ionic.io/landing/push

mkeung 11y ago

http://ngcordova.com/docs/plugins/pushNotifications/ http://ngcordova.com/docs/plugins/pushNotifications/ I didn't have any issues using the above. You still need some sort of server (i've used rails, ex: https://github.com/rpush/rpush https://github.com/rpush/rpush) to send the push notifications (and setup the apns certs), but the above will capture them on your ionic app itself.

Encosia 11y ago

What trouble are you running into with APN? I just went through that exercise with a cordova app a few weeks ago, and might be able to help if you need it. My email is in my profile.