From larry.martell at gmail.com  Thu Sep  3 18:07:15 2015
From: larry.martell at gmail.com (Larry Martell)
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2015 12:07:15 -0400
Subject: [Mobile-sig] Sending push notifications
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I'm looking for people's experiences with the different ways to send
push notifications to mobile devices. I have an app that will be
running on Amazon, so I can use their SNS API or I can do it myself.
>From googling there appear to be a few different packages but PyAPNs
and python-gcm seem to be the most popular. And for interfacing to SNS
boto seems to be the choice. Anyone here used any of these or other
packages?

From russell at keith-magee.com  Thu Sep  3 18:17:15 2015
From: russell at keith-magee.com (Russell Keith-Magee)
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2015 00:17:15 +0800
Subject: [Mobile-sig] Sending push notifications
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Hi Larry,

On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 12:07 AM, Larry Martell <larry.martell at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm looking for people's experiences with the different ways to send
> push notifications to mobile devices. I have an app that will be
> running on Amazon, so I can use their SNS API or I can do it myself.
> From googling there appear to be a few different packages but PyAPNs
> and python-gcm seem to be the most popular. And for interfacing to SNS
> boto seems to be the choice. Anyone here used any of these or other
> packages?

Django-push-notifications works quite well. The downside is that
(obviously) it's Django specific - but it does make tracking your
registered devices really easy. Bulk sending to multiple devices is
also really easy. It supports both APNS and GCM.

If you don't want the Django parts, you can probably dig into the code
and just use the generic message sending parts. I can't claim to have
done this myself, though.

Yours,
Russ Magee %-)

From larry.martell at gmail.com  Thu Sep  3 18:18:59 2015
From: larry.martell at gmail.com (Larry Martell)
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2015 12:18:59 -0400
Subject: [Mobile-sig] Sending push notifications
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On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 12:17 PM, Russell Keith-Magee
<russell at keith-magee.com> wrote:
> Hi Larry,
>
> On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 12:07 AM, Larry Martell <larry.martell at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm looking for people's experiences with the different ways to send
>> push notifications to mobile devices. I have an app that will be
>> running on Amazon, so I can use their SNS API or I can do it myself.
>> From googling there appear to be a few different packages but PyAPNs
>> and python-gcm seem to be the most popular. And for interfacing to SNS
>> boto seems to be the choice. Anyone here used any of these or other
>> packages?
>
> Django-push-notifications works quite well. The downside is that
> (obviously) it's Django specific - but it does make tracking your
> registered devices really easy. Bulk sending to multiple devices is
> also really easy. It supports both APNS and GCM.
>
> If you don't want the Django parts, you can probably dig into the code
> and just use the generic message sending parts. I can't claim to have
> done this myself, though.

This client is using flask (despite my preference for django ;-)