[Mobile-sig] Sending push notifications

[Larry Martell]

On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 12:17 PM, Russell Keith-Magee
<russell at keith-magee.com> wrote:
> 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.

This client is using flask (despite my preference for django ;-)