Tom Chapman

Push notifications III

Added 2022-07-04 21:28:31 +0000 UTC

It would seem that I lied.

Push notifications will soon be available for iOS as well. I didn’t believe I had the skill to make it work but here we are.

An App Store update will be required to access them.

The configuration page for notifications looks simple but there’s actually many moving parts and I’m not yet confident in both its reliability and the reliability of the backend to send notifications at the correct interval.

Web Push, the name of the standard for web app notifications, is really very simple, but now that I’ve tacked on the necessities to support the Apple Push Notification Service, it’s a little more complicated.

The most complicated part of this enterprise is probably making the native iOS app code interact with the web app. I need to do more testing!

If you have already enabled push notifications at https://bray.tech/settings/push-notifications, please come forward if you find it doesn’t work as intended.