Chapter 13. Integrating push notifications
This chapter covers
- Apple’s Push Notification service
- Configuring your app to send and receive push notifications
- Sending remote push notifications
- Registering and scheduling local notifications
In iOS, applications are not allowed to perform continuous operations in the background. But what if something interesting does happen and you want to let your users know about that even if the app is closed? Say you create an application for sending short messages to other people. Chances are the user is not using your application when a friend asks him to have some margaritas by the beach.
Push notifications are the solution for these issues; they’re a great way for apps to interact with users at any ...
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