iOS Components and Frameworks: Understanding the Advanced Features of the iOS SDK

Summary

This chapter introduced you to Apple’s method of communicating with apps that are not active and in the foreground: notifications. You learned about the differences between local and remote push notifications. You saw how to set up an app to receive remote push notifications, and how to schedule local notifications. The chapter guided you through how to set up a Ruby on Rails server to communicate with your app and send push notifications to your app via the Apple Push Notification service.