Tom Chapman
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Push notifications II
🕑 Added 2022-07-01 07:38:32 +0000 UTCI’ve heard you loud and clear. You want them.
Good news, everyone. You’re getting them soon.
I’ve made some excellent progress. That said, I’ve been working on the easy bits: developing the settings UI to enable push notifications as a user and the back end Voluspa APIs that handle your data and send them.
If you’ve used Braytech, you know what I’m like when it comes to UI. I sometimes choose simplicity and design aesthetic over the features you want (more than 4 raid user modules). Exposing UI to turn on notifications for different events will be much harder for me. It has to be intuitive but clean. Tough.
The bad news: iOS doesn’t support push notifications for PWAs (progressive web apps). Apple have finally starting talking about enabling it and are projecting 2023 for release. We could all have died by then.
The okay news: they work on Android! Naturally, they also work on desktop.
Speaking of Android, I still need to update my pipeline and release a new Android app. I’ve been procrastinating on that front but I’ll get there.
Thank you everyone for supporting me!
Comments
Tom
Were it so easy. I’m using my own backend to handle notifications. Using a solution like FCM costs money and comes with implementation debt. If I could do it, it would set me back weeks and may not be able to make it work for Android.
Yogarine
Awesome! Wouldn't you be able to add notifications to iOS using the wrapper App Store App?
James Wheare
A gotcha. We switched recently and it makes life quite a bit easier when supporting both platforms. There’s an API to import existing APNS registrations into it as well.
Tom
It does because I don’t use firebase cloud messaging.
James Wheare
Nice one. Does the lack of support also apply to native converted pwabuilder apps on iOS?
