A little presentation about push notifications on BlackBerry 10

1. Push notifications
BlackBerry 10

2. Overview
• What are push notifications?
• Push Essentials Vs. Push Plus
• Architecture
• Message structure
• Practical approach
• NodeJS module

3. What are push notifications?
• Messages
• Send from a server to a device

4. Push Essentials Vs.
Push Plus

5. What’s up with that?
• Push Essentials
• No status requests
• Push Plus
• Status requests

6. Architecture

7. Physical entities
• Mobile device
• Applicationserver
• Push Initiator
• Pushserver
• Push Proxy Gateway

8. Identification
• PIN-number
• Application ID
• Password
• Content Provider ID
• CPID

9. Procedure
• Registration phase
• Pushphase

10. Registration phase

11. Push phase

12. Message structure

13. PAP-standard
--PMasdfglkjhqwert
Content-Type: application/xml; charset=UTF-8
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE pap PUBLIC "-//WAPFORUM//DTD PAP 2.1//EN"
"http://www.openmobilealliance.org/tech/DTD/pap_2.1.dtd">
<pap>
<push-message push-id="push.endare.com@1369139017071" source-reference="3021-
50568ede737MM608a91m02ic289652m85r" deliver-before-timestamp="2013-05-21T14:27:48Z">
<address address-value="7F308D" />
<quality-of-service delivery-method="unconfirmed" />
</push-message>
</pap>
--PMasdfglkjhqwert
Content-Encoding: binary
Content-Type: text/html
Push-Message-ID: push.endare.com@1369139017071
This is an example
--PMasdfglkjhqwert--

14. Practical approach

15. Registration @ BlackBerry
https://www.blackberry.com/profile/?eventId=8121

16. Registration @ BlackBerry
• Application ID
• Password
• Content Provider ID
• CPID

17. Push Initiator
• Push Service SDK
• Written in…

18. Push Initiator
• Push Service SDK
• Written in…

19. NodeJS module
• Easy to use
• A few lines of code

20. NodeJS module
Makes life a lot easier…

21. What is NodeJS
• Awesome
• Fast
• Powerfull network applications
• Perfect for real-time applications
• JavaScript
• Awesome

22. How to use?
var pushInitiator = new PushInitiator(applicationId, password, cpid);
var message = new PushMessage(id, “Hello World!”);
message.addRecipient(123456); // PIN number
pushInitiator.push(message, function(err, result) {
// herpa derp
});

23. npm
• Node Package Manager
npm install node-bb10
https://npmjs.org/package/node-bb10

24. Reminder: switch to
momentics

25. Cascades

26. Thanks for your
attention…