Building an iOS app to receive push notifications

Push notification is an important feature to engage users frequently, especially when the users are not using the app. Many people download an app but only open it a few times. If you send them a push notification message, it will encourage them to open the app to get involved in a new activity. Implementing push notifications is very complex if you have to build everything from scratch. However, Ionic makes it very simple by leveraging the Cordova Push Notification plugin and Ionic Cloud as the providers. A push notification provider is a server that can communicate with the Apple Push Notification service (APNs) or Google's Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM). You can set up your own provider server ...

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