New engagement type: push notifications
Push Notifications
iOS 4
iOS 5
Android
What are push notifications good for?
Games
Time-sensitive Discounts
Politics
After figuring out appropriate use cases for push notifications, how do we build the infrastructure to send them?
Urban Airship
What's an "Urban Airship"?
What is Urban Airship?
Apple Push Notification Service
Android C2DM
BlackBerry Push Service
Windows Mobile
Urban Airship's RESTful API
https://go.urbanairship.com/api/[action]
POST https://go.urbanairship.com/api/push/
GET https://go.urbanairship.com/api/ \
device_tokens/[tokens]/
POST https://go.urbanairship.com/api/push/batch/
Register a Device
PUT https://go.urbanairship.com/api/ \
device_tokens/FE66489F304DC75B8D6E8200DFF \
8A456E8DAEACEC428B427E9518741C92C6660
Send a Push Notification
POST https://go.urbanairship.com/api/push/
{
"device_tokens": [
"ABC...",
"FEG..."
],
"schedule_for": [
"2012-07-27 22:48:00",
"2012-07-28 22:48:00"
],
"aps": {
"alert": "Hello from Urban Airship!"
}
}
Python
Example push code
import urbanairship
app_key =
UA_KEYS[group_name]['UA_APPLICATION_KEY']
master_key =
UA_KEYS[group_name]['UA_MASTER_SECRET_KEY']
airship = urbanairship.Airship(app_key,
master_key)
android_json = {'android': {'alert':
'Android push notification text.'}}
airship.broadcast(android_json)
ios_json = {'aps': {'alert':
'iOS push notification text.'}}
airship.broadcast(ios_json)
android_json2 = {'android': {'alert':
'Android push notification text.',
'extra': {'url': 'http://example.com/content'}
}}
airship.broadcast(android_json2)
urbanairship.py
BASE_URL = 'https://go.urbanairship/api'
BROADCAST_URL = BASE_URL + '/push/broadcast/'
def broadcast(self, payload,
exclude_tokens=None):
if exclude_tokens:
payload['exclude_tokens'] = exclude_tokens
body = json.dumps(payload)
status, response = self._request('POST',
body, BROADCAST_URL, 'application/json')
if not status == 200:
raise AirshipFailure(status, response)