This week has seen push notifications added to the ever expanding list of features. For those of you who don’t know, push notifications are a way of receiving messages even when you have closed the app.
For the technically minded of you out there here is a very brief explanation of how this works.
Everything you wanted to know about notifications’ but were too scared to askWhen the user enables notifications a URL is generated by the app which is unique to each person.
This is uploaded to the i-Babble database. Then when someone sends you a message a notification is added to a queue. A windows service (currently running on my desktop PC) goes through this queue sending some XML to the URL which then tells your phone to display a messageIf anyone out there wants to learn more about how to send push notifications then I suggest you take a look at this
websiteI have another suggestion that is currently being worked on, it’s a nice fun one so watch this space