Push Notification Service

Increase User

Engagement

Calendar Events

Message

Pop-Up

Latest

Updates

Push Notifications

Benefits of Push Notification

Increases user-engagement

e.g. In a turn-based game like Tic-Tac-Toe, it can notify a user of his turn (suppose

he gets a phone call in between and forgets that he was playing!!)

Allows to send messages to users even when the app is not running; thus helps in

reminding them of your App

Helps to build a fan community around your game by pushing to a targeted

audience – like your regular gamers

Allows an App to notify its users of new events without needing to actually open it,

i.e. by a sound or a screen pop up

Coming Soon!! &

App42 Push Notification supports

Our Push Notification API can be used to send cross-

platform push messages to devices running on iOS,

Android and Windows Phone with a single API call

• Send Image/Text/URLs text-based Push Notifications

• Send messages in Channel Subscription Mode

• Send Scheduled Push as per Time-Zone

No infrastructure & scalability worries

Push Analytics

• Analyze your Push Campaign with App42 Analytics

• Evaluate the number of Push messages sent, delivered

and opened.

Why App42 Push Notification?

Creating a channel & scheduling

Push messages through AppHQ

A very useful feature that can track:

These analytics can be viewed from our AppHQ console.

Why Push Analytics?

When you use our Push Notification Service, each Push goes from the App42 server to

GCM/APNS/MPNS and then to the user device.

Thus, Analytics gives you a better insight of your Push Notification campaign.

Push Analytics

• Delivery of Push Notification is not guaranteed even from the service provider

• Once delivered, there might be a chance that user just clears it without opening the message

How many Push Notifications were sent from your side

How many were delivered, and

How many users opened the message

100%

74%

31%

Push Notification Campaign

Sent

Delivered

Opened

Integrating with Unity

on Android

Download the sample code from here.

To use Push Notification Service in your App, go to Google console, click on services option

and enable Google Cloud Messaging for Android service.

Click on API Access tab and create a new server key for your application with blank server

information.

Go to AppHQ console(Click here)and click on Push Notification and select Android setting

in Settings option.

Select your App and copy server key that is generated by using Google API console, and

submit it.

A few easy steps

Open the PushSample.unity from your assets folder, it contains PushSample.cs &

Constants.cs.

Open Constants.cs file in Sample App and make these changes:

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Change API-Key and Secret-Key that you have received.

Change Project-no. with your Google Project Number.

Change Game Object Name with your Game Object on which you have to receive

Notification Call-Back from Android.

Change Call-Back Method with your method name on which you have to receive

Notification Call-Back from Android e.g. Success.

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After registering for Push Notification, go to AppHQ console, click on Push Notification and select

application after selecting User tab.

Select desired user from registered User List and click on Send Message Button.

Send appropriate message to user by clicking Send Button.

Now you will get same message on your android device and your Call-Back Method of Unity3D.

Pass the User Id and Message in below method:

Sending messages using AppHQ console

Sending messages using App42 API

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Testing

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1 PushNotificationService pushService=App42API.buildPushNotificationService();

2 pushService.sendPushMessageToUser(userId,message);

Sending a message

through AppHQ console

Default package name of App42 push unity sample project is

com.shephertz.app42.android.pushservice. To change this package name you have to

modify the library project and rebuild it for your own package name. Here are the steps

to perform it:

• Download the library project from here.

• Import this project in your eclipse.

• Change/refactor the package name of the android library project source with your

desired game package name.

• While refactoring, select Update fully qualified names in non-Java text files (Forces

Preview) option. This will modify AndroidManifest.xml file too with new package

name.

Changing Default Package Name

• Cross check AndroidManifest.xml file for changes in package name; If not done, do it

manually.

• Build your library project.

• Copy App42PushService.jar and AndroidManifest.xml file from your bin folder of

library Project folder and replace/paste it into Assets\plugins\Android of your Unity

project.

• In Unity Project, select File option from menu and than select Build settings. Click on

Player Settings-->Other Settings—Identifie-->BundleIdentifier modify default

package name (com.shephertz.app42.android.pushservice) with your package name

that you have used while building the library project.

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IT IS THAT SIMPLE!!!

Some useful linksGetting Started:

Quick Start Guide

Sign-up for Free

Game Development Center

Concepts:

Backend as a Service

Massive Multiplayer Gaming Engine

App Analytics

Products:

App42 Cloud APIs - BaaS

AppWarp – Multiplayer Gaming Engine

AppHQ – Management Console

AppHawk – Project Management Tool

AppClay – Custom App Builder

Downloads:

App42 Cloud SDKs

App 42 Modules

Blogs:

Why BaaS?

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Push Notification for Android

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http://appwarp.shephertz.com

http://app42paas.shephertz.com

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