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Ionic Cookbook

You're reading from   Ionic Cookbook Recipes to create cutting-edge, real-time hybrid mobile apps with Ionic

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2018
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ISBN-13 9781788623230
Length 390 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Indermohan Singh Indermohan Singh
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Creating Our First App with Ionic 2. Adding Ionic Components FREE CHAPTER 3. Extending Ionic with Angular Building Blocks 4. Validating Forms and Making HTTP Requests 5. Adding Animation 6. User Authentication and Push Notifications 7. Supporting Device Functionalities Using Ionic Native 8. Theming the App 9. Advanced Topics 10. Publishing the App for Different Platforms 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Building an iOS app to receive push notifications

A push notification is an important feature to engage users frequently, especially when the users are not using the app. Many people download an app, but only open it a few times. If you send them a push notification message, it will encourage them to open the app to get involved in a new activity. Implementing push notifications is very complex if you have to build everything from scratch; however, OneSignal makes it very simple. A push notification provider is a server that can communicate with the Apple Push Notification service (APNs), or Google's Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM). You can set up your own provider server using existing open sources, but you have to maintain this server separately and keep up with potential changes from the APN APIs.

In this section, you will learn how to do the following things:

  • Set up OneSignal...
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