[Interest] iOS/Android push notifications? Amazon Notifications?

[Jason H]

I was wondering if 5.5 or 5.6 will have a standard push notification API?

I need to add push notifications to the app. 
I found an example for Android: http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtandroidextras-notification-example.html
But I did not find a corresponding example for iOS. It seems that the iOS would "just" need to use code written in Objective-C++. However I'm unfamiliar with the APNS API, and an example would be great.

I also found Amazon's Notifications Service as well. Has anyone used that with Qt? Is there a QtCloud offering?  We have the very specific but not unusual requirement that the message needs to be received even if the app is not running. 

Many thanks,