[Mobile-sig] Sending push notifications

[Russell Keith-Magee]

Hi Larry,

On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 12:07 AM, Larry Martell <larry.martell at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm looking for people's experiences with the different ways to send
> push notifications to mobile devices. I have an app that will be
> running on Amazon, so I can use their SNS API or I can do it myself.
> From googling there appear to be a few different packages but PyAPNs
> and python-gcm seem to be the most popular. And for interfacing to SNS
> boto seems to be the choice. Anyone here used any of these or other
> packages?

Django-push-notifications works quite well. The downside is that
(obviously) it's Django specific - but it does make tracking your
registered devices really easy. Bulk sending to multiple devices is
also really easy. It supports both APNS and GCM.

If you don't want the Django parts, you can probably dig into the code
and just use the generic message sending parts. I can't claim to have
done this myself, though.

Yours,
Russ Magee %-)