The document discusses the benefits and functionality of a push notification service that enhances user engagement by enabling notifications even when an app is not running. It outlines the capabilities for cross-platform messaging, user segmentation, and real-time tracking of push notifications. Additionally, it provides guidance on integrating push notifications with iOS apps using App42's API, including sample code and setup instructions.

1. Push Notification Service

2. Increase User
Engagement
Calendar Events
Message
Pop-Up
Latest
Updates
Push Notifications

3. 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

4. App42 Push Notification supports
iOS
Android
Windows
Unity
Flash
HTML 5
Cocos2dx
Corona.. And more

5. Our Push Notification API can be used to send cross- platformpush messages to devices running on iOS, Androidand WindowsPhonewith a single API call
•Send Image/Text/URLstext-based Push Notifications
•Send messages in Channel Subscription Mode
•Send ScheduledPush as per Time-Zone
No infrastructure & scalability worries
Push Analytics•Analyzeyour Push Campaign with App42 Analytics
•Evaluate the number of Push messages sent, delivered and opened
Why App42 Push Notification?

6. Push for Marketing Automation
Segment your Users and send targeted Push Notifications
•Segmentation based on User Profile, Interests, Channel Subscription, etc.
•Geo-Location based Push Notifications
Track User Activity, set custom events and trigger Push Notifications based on Users’ Current/Real-time or Previous Sessions’ Activity
•Set custom events such as App Open, Click on a Link, App Session Close, In-App Purchase, Add to Cart, etc.
•Trigger real-time Push Notifications based on Event occurrences

7. Creating a channel & scheduling
Push messages through AppHQ

8. A very useful feature that can track:
These analytics can be viewed from our AppHQconsole.
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

9. Integrate Push Notificationwith Unity3d on iOS

10. Steps to Integrate Push Notificationwith Unity3d on iOS
Download our Sample App Source Code from ourGitHub Repo.
To configure Push Notifications for iOS Apps/games; the prerequisites are:
•Create a new App ID and provisioning profile for each App that uses push as wellas an SSL certificate for the server. For this, you should havean iOS Developer Program Membership oniOS Dev Center
•Create .p12 file from the SSL certificate, which was downloaded from the iOS Dev Center
•You require a server!
Note:If you are new to Push Notifications for iOS or App42 , you can go through ourprevious blog(Configure & Send Push Notification on iOS Device)

11. How the sample code implements the Push Notifications by examining the key code snippets?
•Open the downloaded folder, go to the assets folder and double click PushSample.unityfile to open the sample
•To implement ‘Push’, drag and drop our “App42PushHandlerInternal.h/.m” classes to “Assets/Plugins/iOS” folder and “PushScript.cs”C# script to “Assets” folder.
•Assign PushScript.csto a game object; in demo it was assigned to the main camera. So, let’s browse through the PushScript.cscode.
•To receive push notifications, iOSneeds to be notified that your App wants to receive push notifications, and “App42PushHandlerInternal.m”class does it by default .
•In PushScript, all the required call backs are defined and to get the call backs, set a listener game object as:
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// Use this for initialization
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voidStart ()
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{
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setListenerGameObject(this.gameObject.name);
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}

12. •As “App42PushHandlerInternal.m” sends a request to register this device for push notification service; the device token is received from Apple Push Service on the successful response.
•It is available via “onDidRegisterForRemoteNotificationsWithDeviceToken” call back of PushScript.cs.
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//Sent when the application successfully registered with Apple Push Notification Service (APNS).
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voidonDidRegisterForRemoteNotificationsWithDeviceToken(string deviceToken)
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{
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if(deviceToken !=null&&deviceToken.Length!=0)
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{
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registerDeviceTokenToApp42PushNotificationService(deviceToken,"User Name");
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}
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}

13. •Register this device to App42 Push Notification Service to send/receive push notifications.
•To do this, just call “registerDeviceTokenToApp42PushNotificationService” method of PushScript.csfrom the above call back
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//Registers a user with the given device token to APP42 push notification service
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voidregisterDeviceTokenToApp42PushNotificationService(string devToken,string userName)
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{
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ServiceAPI serviceAPI =newServiceAPI(api_key,secret_key);
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PushNotificationService pushService =serviceAPI.BuildPushNotificationService();
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pushService.StoreDeviceToken(userName,devToken,"iOS");
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}

14. •The SendPushToUsermethod of this script can be written/called to send a request to App42 serverto send a Push Notification to a specific user
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//Sends push to a given user
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voidSendPushToUser(string userName,string message)
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{
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ServiceAPI serviceAPI =newServiceAPI(api_key,secret_key);
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PushNotificationService pushService =serviceAPI.BuildPushNotificationService();
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pushService.SendPushMessageToUser(userName,message);
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}

15. •The “onPushNotificationsReceived” call back of the PushScriptwill be called when you receive a push notification
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//Sent when the application Receives a push notification
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voidonPushNotificationsReceived(string pushMessageString)
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{
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Console.WriteLine("onPushNotificationsReceived");
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//dump you code here to handle the pushMessageString
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Debug.Log(pushMessageString);
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}

16. Now,
•Your App is successfully set up to receive/send push notifications through our App42 Server usingApp42 Push Notification Service
•If you have any questions or need further assistance to integrate Push Notification in your App, do write back atsupport@shephertz.com
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17. Sending a message
through AppHQconsole

18. IT IS THAT SIMPLE!!!

19. Some useful links
Getting Started:
Quick Start GuideSign-up for Free
Game Development Center
Concepts:
Backend as a Service
Massive Multiplayer Gaming Engine
App Analytics
Products: App42 Cloud APIs -BaaSAppWarp –Multiplayer Gaming EngineAppHQ –Management Console
Downloads:
App42 Cloud SDKs
App 42 Modules
Blogs:
Why BaaS?
Push Notification for iOS
Push Notification for AndroidReal-time Multiplayer Games using Unity3D
Integrating Facebook in your Android AppMaking a Turn-based Game
Using Query Interface
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Add ‘Social’ to your Game

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