Urban Airship iPhone Framework
Our iPhone application The Now is a tool to help people live more mindfully. The Now accomplishes this using a technique called continuous mindfulness training. The process works by using periodic cues, in this case, free iPhone push notifications with an audible chime and relevant message, to remind you to be fully focused on the present. When we started creating The Now we researched what was involved in adding push notification support to the app. The standard method involves setting up your own complex push notification server, which then communicates with Apple’s push servers. This seemed like overkill for the limited scope of our push notification usage, so we started exploring third party push notification services. We discovered and settled on using Urban Airship’s push notification service.
1 year ago
