Push Notifications
AirMail Push delivers push notifications from your app to users on the Apple iOS, Android and Blackberry platforms in real time. AirMail Push is a scalable, easy-to-implement solution that lets allows you to optimize your mobile applications. Integrating push into your existing apps helps augment your development efforts by bringing users back to the app. With push notifications you can communicate with your app users in real-time, boosting their engagement with your app, and your brand.
With AirMail Push, you can start pushing messages to iPhone, Android and BlackBerry users today. We can get you up and running within a few short hours.
What is Push?
Push notifications help you communicate with users. Using push notifications, you can interact with your users by sending messages directly to any device running on the Apple iOS, Android or BlackBerry platforms.
If you're a mobile publisher (an application developer, a media organization, a retail business, etc.), you can reach users who have installed apps on their mobile devices, even if the app is not open. Connect with them in real-time, instantly, with breaking news updates, messages from their friends or social networks, sports scores or stock moves – the uses are endless. Plus, whether the phone is carried in a pocket, handbag or briefcase, your message reaches users where they are. This direct-to-pocket experience provides enormous potential for your content - and it's easy to get started immediately.
Urban Airship’s mobile messaging products (AirMail Push and AirMail Inbox) provide a cost-efficient method for connecting with your users. Push notifications travel on a data network, on a user’s data plan. They do not require or use SMS, nor do they incur charges for the user on the receiving end. It's extremely cost effective.
That’s the upside. The downside? Incorporating media-rich interactive mobile features takes development time, infrastructure, and the IT cycles to manage additional overhead. For every platform, your headaches multiply. With AirMail Push, you can expand your reach without adding complexities to your implementations. Send notices to users on all three platforms—Apple iOS, Android and BlackBerry—from one API.
Just focus on building great apps. Urban Airship does the rest.
AirMail Push Features
- Quickly Push-enable your apps with open source libraries and Urban Airship’s simple and easy-to-integrate RESTful API. Reach multiple platforms from one API call.
- Blast messages to all of your users at once— or customize messages to specific individuals, groups or devices with a web-based admin. With the Urban Airship simple API, you can programmatically tag and organize users.
- Customize aliases for device tokens that make sense for you, like usernames or customer IDs.
- Group and send messages—on a predetermined schedule—to large numbers of users with fewer, smaller API calls using our seamless device tagging.
- Monitor your feeds and notify users of content updates with automated RSS-to-Push.
- Schedule notifications to deliver your message exactly when you want a user to receive it.
- Automatically increment and decrement a user's badge (iOS only).
- Let your users define quiet times when they don't want to receive messages.
- Know exactly when your users have read your messages. Send smart mobile campaigns with usable analytics.
Let’s get started
With Urban Airship, you don't need to build and maintain your own server infrastructure, learn Apple's (or RIM’s or Google’s) protocols, or deal with monitoring feedback services. We’ll take care of that hassle. And we’ll keep the libraries updated as things change on the platform side.
You concentrate on building great apps. We’ll take care of the rest for you. Sign-up today and see how easy incorporating push notifications into your app can be.