PhoneGap Day EU Push Workshop 2016

What You Will Build

In this workshop you will learn how to add push notification functionality to an existing PhoneGap application. We’ll go over a the ways to handle incoming push notifications to provide a native experience.

What You Will Learn

• How to handle specific notification types such as foreground push, background push, action buttons, redirecting to a specific page in your app.

Pre-requisites

• PhoneGap CLI version 6.2.2 or greater.

Android Pre-requisites

• PhoneGap Developer App from the Play Store

iOS Pre-requisites

• PhoneGap Developer App from the App Store

Requirements

• A working knowledge of HTML and JavaScript is assumed, but you don’t need to be a JavaScript guru.
• To complete this workshop, all you need is a code editor, an Android or iOS device, and a connection to the Internet.

A mobile device is a requirement for this tutorial. The iOS simulator does not support push notifications and the less said about the Android emulator the better.

Useful Resources

You will not need to setup your own Google App Project or Apple Developer Certificates for this workshop. We will be using the PhoneGap Developer App to receive the push notifications. Later if you want to add push to your application here are some helpful links.

1. GCM Project Creation - a guide from Urban Airship on setting up a project with GCM enabled.
2. Apple Push Configuration - a guide from Urban Airship on creating the certificate and permission files to enable APNS.

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