How can a web application send push notifications to iOS devices

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I m working on a web app  How can I send push notifications to iOS users when there is new content

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Pushbullet is a great alternative for this.

However the user needs to have a Pushbullet account and the app installed (iOS, Android) or plugin installed (Chrome, Opera, Firefox and Windows).

You can use the API by creating a Pushbullet app, and connect your application's user to the Pushbullet user using oAuth2.

Using a library would make it much easier, for PHP I could recommend ivkos/Pushbullet-for-PHP.

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Google Chrome now supports the W3C standard for push notifications   http   www w3 org TR push-api

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ACTUALLY    This is brand new mind you    On the newest version of OS X  Mavericks  you CAN send push notifications from a webpage to the desktop   But according to the documentation  NOT iPhones   Note  This document pertains to OS X only  Notifications for websites do not appear on iOS    Currently Apple has plans to allow 2 kinds of push notifications  OS X Website Push Notifications and Local Notifications   The obvious hurdle here is that this will not work on PCs  nor will it allow you to do android push notifications   Furthermore  you actually can with versions as old as Snow Leapord  send push notifications from a website as long as said website is open and active   The new Mavericks OS will allow push notifications even if the site isnt opened  assuming you have already given permission to said site to send push notifications   From the mouth of Apple   In OS X v10 9 and later  you can dispatch OS X Website Push Notifications from your web server directly to OS X users by using the Apple Push Notification service  APNs   Not to be confused with local notifications  push notifications can reach your users regardless of whether your website or their web browser is open     To integrate push notifications in your website  you first present an interface that allows the user to opt in to receive notifications  If the user consents  Safari contacts your website requesting its credentials in the form of a file called a push package  The push package also contains notification assets used throughout OS X and data used to communicate to a web service you configure  If the push package is valid  you receive a unique identifier for the user on the device known as a device token  The user receives the notification when you send the combination of this device token and your message  or payload  to APNs   Upon receiving the notification  the user can click on it to open a webpage of your choosing in the user   s default browser   Note  If you need a refresher on APNs  read the    Apple Push Notification Service    chapter in Local and Push Notification Programming Guide  Although the document is specific to iOS and OS X push notifications  paradigms of the push notification service still apply

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No  there is no way for an webapp to receive push notification  What you could do is to wrap your webapp into a native app which has push notifications

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While not yet supported on iOS  as of iOS 10   websites can send push notifications to Firefox and Chrome  Desktop Android  with the Push API   The Push API is used in conjunction with the older Web Notifications to display the message  The advantage is that the Push API allow the notification to be delivered even when the user is not surfing your website  because they are built upon Service Workers  scripts that are registered by the browser and can be executed in background at a later time even after your user has left your website    The process of sending a notification involves the following    a user visits your website  must be secured over HTTPS   you ask permission to display push notifications and you register a service worker  a script that will be executed when a push notification is received  if the user has granted permission  you can read the device token  endpoint  which should be sent to the server and stored now you can send notifications to the user  your server makes an HTTP POST request to the endpoint  which is an URL that contains the device token   The server which receives the request is owned by the browser manufacturer  e g  Google  Mozilla   the browser is constantly connected to it and can read the incoming notifications  when the user browser receives a notification executes the service worker  which is responsible for managing the event  retrieving the notification data from the server and displaying the notification to the user   The Push API is currently supported on desktop and Android by Chrome  Firefox and Opera   You can also send push notifications to Apple   Safari desktop using APNs  The approach is similar  but with many complications  apple developer certificates  push packages  low-level TCP connection to APNs    If you want to implement the push notifications by yourself start with these tutorials    Push API  Push Notifications on the Open Web  Apple Push Notification system  Configuring Safari Push Notifications    If you are looking for a drop in solution I would suggest Pushpad  which is a service I have built   Update  September 2017   Apple has started developing the service workers for WebKit  status   Since the service workers are a fundamental technology for web push  this is a big step forward

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You can use pushover if you don t want to create your own native app  https   pushover net

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No  only native iOS applications support push notifications   UPDATE  Mac OS X 10 9  amp  Safari 7 websites can now also send push notifications  but this still does not apply to iOS  Read the Notification Programming Guide for Websites  Also check out WWDC 2013 Session 614

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The W3C started in 2010 a working group to implement notifications  http   www w3 org 2010 web-notifications      This Working Group develops APIs that expose those mechanisms to Web Applications   so that Web developers creating  for example  Web-based e-mail clients and instant-messaging clients can more closely integrate their Web application behavior with the notification features of the operating systems of their end users    Finally the result is like a bad joke as it works only if the specific website is open  http   alxgbsn co uk notify js   I think they missed to implement the possibility to add push urls so the browser is able to ask for notifications while its running in the background - and above all - if all tabs have been closed

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To be more specific  in order for a web application to send push notifications to a mobile device  such as the iPhone  the mobile device must have registered to receive push notifications for a particular application   The registration for push notification is done through a native app and can only be performed through a native app  Once the native app is registered for push notification  it can send the authorization token to the server  which can be used in conjunction with the certificate used to provision the native client  to send the push notifications to the mobile device    As specified in another answer  one option is to  wrap  your web application in a native application   Meaning that you would create a native application that basically presents a UIWebView  for iPhone dev  to the user showing your web application   While this pretty much functions in the same manner as the native browser  you would be able to add the ability to register for push notifications using the native controls   It would be beneficial to you to review the Apple s push notification document as it provides some pretty good information on how push messaging functions on the iPhone   See these links provided by Peter Hosey    https   support apple com kb HT201925 https   developer apple com library content documentation NetworkingInternet Conceptual RemoteNotificationsPG APNSOverview html

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You can use HTML5 Websockets to introduce your own push messages  From Wikipedia        For the client side  WebSocket was to be implemented in Firefox 4    Google Chrome 4  Opera 11  and Safari 5  as well as the mobile version   of Safari in iOS 4 2  Also the BlackBerry Browser in OS7 supports   WebSockets     To do this  you need your own provider server to push the messages to the clients  If you want to use APN  Apple Push Notification  or C2DM  Cloud to Device Message   you must have a native application which must be downloaded through the online store

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Check out Xtify Web Push notifications  http   getreactor xtify com  This tool allows you to push content onto a webpage and target visitors as well as trigger messages based on browser DOM events   It s designed specifically with mobile in mind

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