I'm looking for a way to catch and display all push notifications from Parse within my app. Maybe a "News" screen or something like that? If anyone has accomplished this, or would like to figure it out, I'd gladly pay to learn it. I think this would make a heck of a plugin, too! :) Thanks, Andy

Hi Andy, I think xtify have an inbox for their sdk and there was another service that had an inbox but I can't think of them at the moment. I'm also wondering about push, I don't want to go to a lot of effort if someone has a plugin around the corner. I'd gladly pay for it!!! Also wondering if @David still has that on the roadmap? (There is a link in the self hosted servers for push in the future). I think it would be great to have it unified into the panel but given the huge hours keeping up with plugins, os updates etc, I'd love to know if this is still going to happen ... Cheers Darrel

Darrel, You must be referring to "Appoxee" http://www.Appoxee.com Appoxee has an inbox feature. MDG

great idea! I wonder if that is a PAID feature at Parse? The data looks like it's in standard format. I thought it was JSON at first and was thinking of how to export/archive. Good suggestion for them - [email protected] usually gets me a pretty quick reply. Love Parse, great site and features. What I have been doing is making a blog entry for each notification so it shows up in the news area I want. I put it under a different category than other posts. I started doing that because I was thinking - maybe looking at a history of push might reveal some useful/valuable patterns a few months out... IMO the BT Push Notification is stagnant because no one is asking them about it. I'd love it but making it work cross platform, with apple certificates and some limits to prevent abuse - that's a HUGE project for BT. A few threads asking might get us a status, but I'm more than happy with Parse and woulld probably keep using it anyways...

@mdg Thanks, that's the one!!!! @atrain53 (the Parse guru!) Good idea about the blog entries - so you send them a push notification and then also add that as a blog entry on the app? And with parse, you create a new user on parse for each client for their app? And then push from the parse website or from a locked screen within the app? I'm really interested in how others approach this. For some (most) of my users another website for push just further complicates things. I think a new thread on push might be worth it???

Very interested in push via locked screen too! Working with parse.

@ictguy- I'm not that fancy yet - my blog entries are just me replicating the same text I send in the push to a WP Blog I set-up for most clients apps. (I use a lot of WP blogs for clients, easy for me and them to admin, works great for RSS and feedback, etc... WP is just a great back end to feed apps fresh mobile optimized content) I sort of have a working PFPush class screen to send push from device. I wish they had a better tutorial to show some samples. Just a few lines of code and then a link to "read our api" which has a gaggle of options. I'm just at the Hello World stage there and not actively working on the code. Understand completely what you are saying about clinets having to go to Parse.com to send the notice tho... If I made a PFPush plug-in, it would only be for IOS right now and would require users to add the Parse SDK themselves and set-up their push certs as I can't really support a bunch of 'code signing' issues. I have also subclassed the Parse Login and Sign Up view controllers so they can be completely customized and you can login and register users for your app thru parse. Parse has Facebook and Twitter integration too built right in :) I thought about making a plug-in with that code and looking for a client/app to actually use it in still. I do want to see what the BT stance is charging for a plug-in that utilizes a free 3rd Party SDK like Parse or Aviary. Yet to see one on the market. Testing is a pain too with Push, you need to have a live demo app and a few other devices to test, no simulator :( Parse is pretty amazing once you start to explore it. Singly is another one I'd check out for logins to apps, etc...

@Atrain53, Thanks for the detailed response, much appreciated :) The wordpress content strategy seems like a good one. So the client feeds the app more via word press than the BT control panel. WP would be a bit easier in terms of ease of use. I also looked at the 'Parse Login and Sign Up' sample but it was beyond me to get all that going :( I understand what you are saying about the plugin, the signing and adding SDK's etc. Although it's probably doable as a plugin, it would be much better if it was integrated from a BT 'platform' approach ie that the necessary code was in the builds and there was a simple way to upload certificates and so forth through the panel. Would be a lot of work though, I'd imagine! I'll check out singly too ... thanks again. Darrel