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Hansen
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02/18/16 02:47 PM (8 years ago)

Any suggestions for Parse Push notifications replacement?

I am looking for a simple push notification option. Had used Parse once, was not easy, and they are going away... any suggestions? Thank you, Clint
 
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02/19/16 08:42 AM (8 years ago)
I haven't found one yet. But I think I will go with the Amazon route because they will be here forever! Check out this tutorial of how to migrate from Parse to Amazon Push.. https://mobile.awsblog.com/post/Tx3NE69QDHI7LJK/Migrating-from-Parse-Push-to-Amazon-SNS
 
Hansen
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02/19/16 08:44 AM (8 years ago)
Thank you for your response, I will check that out. In looking around, my favorite so far is Urban Airship:https://www.urbanairship.com
 
Chris from Staffor...
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02/20/16 03:47 AM (8 years ago)
It's a great pity that the Buzztouch push notifications dont work. As there is hopefully more investment coming in from subscribers is this something that will be fixed?
 
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02/20/16 06:13 AM (8 years ago)
I spent days trying to get the Buzztouch option to function. Gave up on it and that is why I am looking to other sources.
 
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02/20/16 03:27 PM (8 years ago)
I have Push working on BuzzTouch Self-Hosted --- at present I'm only using iOS and only in Design mode. Note: There was one bug (one line of code) that had to be edited in a PHP page in self-hosted. I found the tweak noted in the forums. I will see if I can relocate the info. Again, I absolutely have push working in Design mode iOS devices, and as soon as my app goes live in the App Store I will expect to also have it working in Live mode iOS devices. Note that your self-hosted BT server must be hosted on a server that has the correct ports open in order to communicate with Apple's servers.
 
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02/20/16 03:56 PM (8 years ago)
I mentioned one bit of code needed edited in a PHP file to get Push working on self hosted. Here is the link: http://www.buzztouch.com/forum/thread.php?fid=06DB0BCB08E6666&sortColumn=&sortUpDown=&currentPage=160&tid=F274B661A419B632F680A40&command=confirmDeleteThread Post by WolfTimJ -- 01/25/14 04:11 PM -- who wrote, "It's been answered a while back, for self hosted though. FIXED: In BT-server/bt_v15/bt_app change line 431 of file: bt_pushNotifications.php <<OLD>> //if(strtolower($userfile_type) != "application/octet-stream" || strtolower($file_ext) != "pem"){ <<NEW>> if(strtolower($userfile_type) != "application/x-x509-ca-cert" || strtolower($file_ext) != "pem"){ If you want to see how the old code was broken; I inserted this line to get visible output in the control panel that showed what the variables were set to. It was then apparent where the mismatch was: $strMessage = "<br/>file_ext is: " . $file_ext . " filename is: " . $filename . " userfile_type is: " . $userfile_type; -Tim" -Doug
 
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05/03/16 10:16 AM (7 years ago)
Hi there option going back to Parse SDK ? I have good news, for all of you who loved Parse backend, I just wanted to let you know that we’ve found out a nice BaaS service which offers 1GB free and hosts a Parse Dashboard, it’s called back{4}app and allows you to use the Parse SDK. Enjoy! Site: http://back4app.com
 

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