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Chris Johnston
Courses Plus Student 32 PointsWebsite data to iOS and Android?
I am looking for a helpful start (key words or even phrases) to begin understanding what it takes for a web site to give auto notification to an app on iOS and Android. I hope that wording is understandable, but in short how can things that happen on my website be automated to send the data as information to phones apps. Is this handled via web services? The way I was imagining it was like a site that a user (contributor) interacts with to let you know some feedback from another contributor is needed. The user (contributor) would then interact with the site and a phone application would instantly notify the other contributor. I was thinking this could be instant (as fast as servers can work). Simply from something like a click. Thanks
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Greg Kaleka
39,021 PointsHi Chris,
What you're talking about are called "Push Notifications". I'm not very familiar with how to actually implement them, but here's a guide on how you would do it for iOS devices using Parse:
Chris Johnston
Courses Plus Student 32 PointsHey, that is a helpful start. Thanks