Summary

In this chapter, you learned how to add notifications to our app. We implemented push notifications with Parse and discussed how to create our custom notifications service using Google Cloud Messaging, with all the code needed on the client side and tools to test the server side. In the second half of the chapter, we introduced analytics, explaining why they are important, and tracked events with Parse. An important aspect in the analytics world is the error report. We tracked the errors in our apps using Parse and HockeyApp as well. To finish, we took an overview of other analytics solutions, such as Google Analytics and Adobe Omniture.

In the next chapter, we will work with location services and learn how to add MapView to our example, displaying a Google map with location markers.