I have been reading the forum threads on using parse for push notifications and since I am still hosted on BT I think this would be my best bet. I have not seent any how to tutorials out there for BT. Does anyone have any good suggestions to find soemthing like this?

I have how tos for parse I will post tomorrow.

Awesome that is great thank you.

Warning, Parse does not play well with IOS apps when offline. There are a few posts about this issue, might be worth having a look at these before you start. Cheers, Farcat

Here are some docs from my parse channel plug in. how to doc iOS- https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1LLiM88XN8wMDhLS2tTdUZIeG8/edit?usp=sharing how to doc android- https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1LLiM88XN8wT0RTcXRYenlHUzg/edit?usp=sharing For push notifications to work properly you must also make sure you set up push through the apple developers account and parse.com this first part of this tutorial shows you how. https://www.parse.com/tutorials/ios-push-notifications appdelegate.m iOS 2.0 sample- https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1LLiM88XN8wZkZPN2RFUXhPSTg/edit?usp=sharing appdelegate.m iOS 3.0 sample- https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1LLiM88XN8wMjNHdEtQV3JEWUk/edit?usp=sharing

When you say offline, you mean when the device does not have internet service correct? Thank you I appreciate this. Also congrats on the success with your apps, I was reading the BT blog about what you have been doing and hope to be to that point one of these days.

Hi @Masons App Design, Exactly, I mean when the device does not have internet service. Otherwise it works but I see it as a put down for the users. Here are some of the threads I was referring to: http://www.buzztouch.com/forum/thread.php?tid=68DDDC103E6A11CF2D0095E&currentPage=1 http://www.buzztouch.com/forum/thread.php?tid=6CA00EEDDED359A3AF7D260&sortColumn=FT.id&sortUpDown=DESC&currentPage=1 Let us know how you get on. Cheers, Farcat

Do you still use parse? I was looking at pushbots which gives you 1.5 million pushes a month but not sure if anyone has used it before. I haven't found any threads on it.

I don't, I use http://www.pushwoosh.com/ and I am very happy with it. Maybe @feraco has found a solution to the Parse issue?

Ok I will give it a try. If not I may try using pushbots. Just to clarify though I can still use these services even though I am hosted on BT correct?

Hey guys so I went a different route and tried pushbots. I did everything on the website but now I get this message in my console: [2014-03-11 19:43:15 - Dex Loader] Unable to execute dex: Multiple dex files define Lcom/google/android/gcm/GCMBaseIntentService; [2014-03-11 19:43:15 - andrewsisd] Conversion to Dalvik format failed: Unable to execute dex: Multiple dex files define Lcom/google/android/gcm/GCMBaseIntentService; anyone got any suggestions?

Hi, I am not familiar with pushbots (and not familar with Android in general) but I came across this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2687773/android-conversion-to-dalvik-format-failed-unable-to-execute-dex-null Have you cleaned your project? Are you running on an actual device? Cheers, Farcat

A few possible solutions here as well: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20397385/conversion-to-dalvik-format-failed-unable-to-execute-dex-java-nio-bufferoverfl

I am not sure what you mean by cleaned the project, but I am running it on an android tablet and a galaxy s2 phone.

Ok I just read the threads and I understand what you mean. no I have not cleaned the project but I will try that as soon as I get home.

@farcat I got the errors to clear by deleting the GCM jar file in the libs folder. I think it was intefering with the pushbots jar file. The pushes work except once you send a push the app crashes. Below is pushbots suggestion on how to correct it but I am not sure what it means as I am not much of a code person: 6. Specify the name of your Application subclass in <application> tag. <application android:allowBackup="true" android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher" android:name="PB_PACKAGE.MyApplication" android:label="@string/app_name" android:theme="@style/AppTheme" > 7. create your Application subclass mentioned above in AndroidManifest.xml , and paste the code below after updating your Pushbots Application ID,Sender ID and PACKAGE . (Show me how ?). package PB_PACKAGE;import com.pushbots.push.Pushbots;import android.app.Application;public class MyApplication extends Application { @Override public void onCreate() { super.onCreate(); Pushbots.init(this, SENDER_ID,PUSHBOTS_APPLICATION_ID); } } I have looked at the show me section as well but since it only shows a test application I am not sure which file to add this to.

Setting up Parse with BT 3.0, anyone have any info. I keep getting Lcom errors when it gets to initializing BT_gcmConfig.java. Just wondering if anyone else is seeing this.

Setting up Parse with BT 3.0, anyone have any info. I keep getting Lcom errors when it gets to initializing BT_gcmConfig.java. Just wondering if anyone else is seeing this. I have set it up on another app and this is what I am getting. I can send a message from Parse console. I recieve it on my device and can see it at the top of the screen. If it is a long message it slowly scrolls. Seems to work well. The App shuts down as soon as the phone vibrates and chimes and the message appears at the top of my phone. It appears there is no way for the message to be shown in the buzztouch app.??? complains about no drawable....I don't know. Here is the log cat. It is complaining of the Google GCM project number as well, but there isn't any with parse, so.??????? any Ideas? 03-18 17:18:06.700: W/ZZ(2984): BT_activity_host:handleReportToCloudResults server data not changed, no refresh needed 03-18 17:18:42.095: V/GCMBroadcastReceiver(2984): onReceive: com.google.android.c2dm.intent.RECEIVE 03-18 17:18:42.095: V/GCMRegistrar(2984): Setting the name of retry receiver class to com.kidlocator2.BT_gcmReceiver 03-18 17:18:42.105: V/GCMBroadcastReceiver(2984): GCM IntentService class: com.kidlocator2.BT_gcmIntentService 03-18 17:18:42.105: V/GCMBaseIntentService(2984): Acquiring wakelock 03-18 17:18:42.115: W/ZZ(2984): BT_gcmConfig:getGCMProjectNumber. Using Google GCM Project Number in AndroidManifest: "YOUR_GOOGLE_GCM_PROJECT_NUMBER_GOES_HERE" 03-18 17:18:42.125: V/GCMBaseIntentService(2984): Intent service name: GCMIntentService-YOUR_GOOGLE_GCM_PROJECT_NUMBER_GOES_HERE-1 03-18 17:18:42.125: W/ZZ(2984): BT_gcmIntentService:CONSTRUCTOR Google GCM Project ID: YOUR_GOOGLE_GCM_PROJECT_NUMBER_GOES_HERE 03-18 17:18:42.145: W/ZZ(2984): BT_gcmIntentService:onMessage notification: null 03-18 17:18:42.145: W/ZZ(2984): BT_gcmIntentService:generateNotification Message: null 03-18 17:18:42.155: E/com.parse.ParseNotificationManager(2984): Icon id 2130837708 is not a valid drawable. Trying to fall back to default app icon. 03-18 17:18:42.185: V/GCMBaseIntentService(2984): Releasing wakelock 03-18 17:18:42.185: W/dalvikvm(2984): threadid=14: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0x41573930) 03-18 17:18:42.185: E/AndroidRuntime(2984): FATAL EXCEPTION: IntentService[GCMIntentService-YOUR_GOOGLE_GCM_PROJECT_NUMBER_GOES_HERE-1] If I can get past this, it will be pretty cool... ":^)

this is a different test, same app, same error. 03-18 19:13:58.199: W/dalvikvm(5453): threadid=14: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0x41573930) 03-18 19:13:58.199: E/AndroidRuntime(5453): FATAL EXCEPTION: IntentService[GCMIntentService-Just a Test-2] 03-18 19:13:58.199: E/AndroidRuntime(5453): java.lang.IllegalMonitorStateException: object not locked by thread before notify() 03-18 19:13:58.199: E/AndroidRuntime(5453): at java.lang.Object.notify(Native Method) 03-18 19:13:58.199: E/AndroidRuntime(5453): at com.kidlocator2.BT_gcmIntentService.generateNotification(BT_gcmIntentService.java:152) 03-18 19:13:58.199: E/AndroidRuntime(5453): at com.kidlocator2.BT_gcmIntentService.onMessage(BT_gcmIntentService.java:89) 03-18 19:13:58.199: E/AndroidRuntime(5453): at com.google.android.gcm.GCMBaseIntentService.onHandleIntent(GCMBaseIntentService.java:223) 03-18 19:13:58.199: E/AndroidRuntime(5453): at android.app.IntentService$ServiceHandler.handleMessage(IntentService.java:65) 03-18 19:13:58.199: E/AndroidRuntime(5453): at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99) 03-18 19:13:58.199: E/AndroidRuntime(5453): at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137) 03-18 19:13:58.199: E/AndroidRuntime(5453): at android.os.HandlerThread.run(HandlerThread.java:60) 03-18 19:13:58.269: W/ZZ(5453): BT_screen_menuButtons:onPause JSON itemId: "5CEAF026F3D30721BAE063C" itemType: "BT_screen_menuButtons" itemNickname: "NEVER LOST" 03-18 19:13:58.269: W/ZZ(5453): BT_activity_host:onPause 03-18 19:13:58.940: W/ZZ(5453): kidlocator2_appDelegate: onTrimMemory with level: 20 03-18 19:13:58.970: W/ZZ(5453): BT_screen_menuButtons:onStop JSON itemId: "5CEAF026F3D30721BAE063C" itemType: "BT_screen_menuButtons" itemNickname: "NEVER LOST" 03-18 19:13:58.990: W/ZZ(5453): BT_activity_host:onStop 03-18 19:13:59.010: W/ZZ(5453): BT_screen_menuButtons:onDestroy JSON itemId: "5CEAF026F3D30721BAE063C" itemType: "BT_screen_menuButtons" itemNickname: "NEVER LOST" 03-18 19:13:59.010: W/ZZ(5453): BT_activity_host:onDestroy