Push Notifications
Urban Airship Push is a scalable, easy-to-implement solution that allows you to take advantage of the rich possibilities offered by push notifications. Amplify your message; augment your app; boost user engagement; track usage data; and increase customer satisfaction. Just add push notification services into your existing mobile apps. With Urban Airship Push, you can start pushing to iPhone and BlackBerry users today (Android is just around the corner). 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 iPhone or BlackBerry devices.
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 Push is a cost-efficient method for connecting with your users. Push notifications travel on a data network, on a user’s data plan. It does not require or use SMS, nor does it 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 Urban Airship Push, you can send notices to users on both iPhone and BlackBerry apps (Android is coming soon) from one API. You can expand your reach without adding complexities to your implementations.
Just focus on building great apps. Urban Airship does the rest.
Urban Airship Push Features
- Quickly Push-enable your app with open source libraries and Urban Airship’s simple RESTful API.
- 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.
Let’s get started
With Urban Airship, you don't need to build and maintain your own server infrastructure, learn Apple'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 with Apple.
You concentrate on building great apps. We’ll take care of the rest for you. Sign-up today and see how easy incorporating the Apple Push Notification Service into your app can be.