Do hybrid mobile apps support Push Notifications?

问题:

Are mobile development frameworks capable of working well with Push Notifications?

Details follow:

I'm researching cross-platform mobile app development. It seems hybrid apps developed using a mobile development framework like PhoneGap, Titanium, etc provide access to core phone features (camera, accelerometer, address book, etc) while developing using web technologies (HTML5, JavaScript, CSS).

One definite requirement we have is using Push Notifications to send messages to devices that have the app installed, even when the app is closed. I understand that each platform supports this differently (Apple Push Notifications vs C2DM, etc).

I'm assuming HTML5 notifications wouldn't fit the requirement since (i'm assuming) HTML5 notifications (Web Sockets, SSE) require the app to be running.

回答1:

PhoneGap on Android supports push notifications by adding a plugin. See here. I'm not sure about other platforms. appMobi supports out of the box push notifications for Android and iOS. See here. I can find some vague references for Titanium, but nothing specific.

回答2:

Trigger.io supports creating hybrid apps with push notifications using only web technologies - no need to setup for local compiles or use Eclipse / XCode.

Our documentation for including push notifications is here: http://docs.trigger.io/en/v1.3/partners/parse.html

We've also blogged a tutorial here: http://trigger.io/cross-platform-application-development-blog/2012/03/23/using-parse-and-trigger-io-for-cross-platform-apps-without-pain-in-the-back-end/

回答3:

I work at AppMobi. We do provide push notifications for iOS and Android out of the box. It's simple to enable and we have a javascript helper library to manage setup/processing/showing in your code. We have a web service API to send messages to, or you can use our Dashboard to send them.

回答4:

One benefit of hybrid mobile apps is the support of standard features like push notifications. You got the answer for PhoneGap, here for appcelerator: http://developer.appcelerator.com/question/123378/push-notifications-on-all-3-platforms