[Interest] Google Push Notifications? Anyone's push notifications?

[Jason H]

Thanks, but this is missing one crucial feature. The feature that when a push notification is received the OS starts the app. The type of notifications the nginx solution deals with require your app to be open. If I was not required to work in the scenario that the app is closed, I'd totally do something like this.


> Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2015 at 12:30 PM
> From: "Konstantin Tokarev" <annulen at yandex.ru>
> To: "Jason H" <jhihn at gmx.com>, "interest at qt-project.org" <interest at qt-project.org>
> Subject: Re: [Interest] Google Push Notifications? Anyone's push notifications?
>
> 
> 
> 27.08.2015, 19:03, "Jason H" <jhihn at gmx.com>:
> > I need to add push notifications to our Qt app for iOS/Android. It looks like Google's service has libraries for iOS and Android. I'm looking for pointers to integrate these libraries on both platforms.
> >
> > "It'd be really cool if..." Qt supported a uniform API for this, even for QtCloudServices, but it looks like push notifications are not a part of the service offering.
> 
> Here is nginx plugin allowing to implement server side:
> 
> https://github.com/wandenberg/nginx-push-stream-module
> 
> It supports 4 kinds of push notifications:
> 
> * long polling (delayed HTTP reply)
> * forever iframe (endless chunked HTTP reply)
> * websocket
> * EventSource aka Server-Sent Events
> 
> On Qt side first 2 options can be trivially implemented with QNetworkAccessManager (or any other HTTP client), for websocket there is QtWebSockets.
> 
> EventSource protocol is quite trivial though one still has to write some text-processing code for its messages, so it's fair to claim that Qt does not support it out of the box.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> Konstantin
>