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ThomasB Lost but trying Posts: 162 Reg: Jun 23, 2011 Palo Alto 3,270	confirm \| cancel 01/03/14 01:46 PM (11 years ago) Using push notifications to drive app to specific page Hi all, I had an interesting question the other day. I'm thinking about how to modify the Buzztouch source code to make this possible. Sorry in advance, this is kind of an obscure question. A client asked about sending a push notification to an app, and then when the user taps on the push notification, it takes them into the app AND it takes them down to the specific screen in the app. The push notification contains a code of some sort that tells the app to open directly to a screen. For example the user has an app created in Buzztouch that has a list of all the stores in a shopping mall. You send that user a push notification, which pops up, telling them of a sale at a specific store. If they swipe or tap the push notification, it takes them into the shopping mall app but bypasses the main menu, instead taking them directly to the page for that specific store. In the old BT iOS source code, I can envision how to do this. Add an algorithm that chops up the JSON string that drives the menus, so you go directly to the lower-level sub-menus instead of the home menu when you first start the app. I haven't looked at the new iOS core design so not sure if the same thing would work now. This is a concept that I'm seeing a lot more in mobile development these days...next generation mobile interfaces that are intelligently driven. BT's JSON architecture is so perfect for this kind of thing... Tom Title Comments Hi all, I had an interesting question the other day. I'm thinking about how to modify the Buzztouch source code to make this possible. Sorry in advance, this is kind of an obscure question. A client asked about sending a push notification to an app, and then when the user taps on the push notification, it takes them into the app AND it takes them down to the specific screen in the app. The push notification contains a code of some sort that tells the app to open directly to a screen. For example the user has an app created in Buzztouch that has a list of all the stores in a shopping mall. You send that user a push notification, which pops up, telling them of a sale at a specific store. If they swipe or tap the push notification, it takes them into the shopping mall app but bypasses the main menu, instead taking them directly to the page for that specific store. In the old BT iOS source code, I can envision how to do this. Add an algorithm that chops up the JSON string that drives the menus, so you go directly to the lower-level sub-menus instead of the home menu when you first start the app. I haven't looked at the new iOS core design so not sure if the same thing would work now. This is a concept that I'm seeing a lot more in mobile development these days...next generation mobile interfaces that are intelligently driven. BT's JSON architecture is so perfect for this kind of thing... Tom

Kittsy buzztouch Evangelist Posts: 2251 Reg: Feb 22, 2012 Liverpool 31,360	01/03/14 03:29 PM (11 years ago) Yup this can be done quite easily. If you use oparse you can add your own custom json to a message does the trick perfectly, with a few lines to the app delegate. I have asked david to add this to buzz touch self hosted when he gets the chance. With buzz touches push notifications I tweaked the sound name as the screen to push and made the amendments to react to that. I just set the sound as a default one so sound would still be played. It sounds like you know what your doing anyway Comments Yup this can be done quite easily. If you use oparse you can add your own custom json to a message does the trick perfectly, with a few lines to the app delegate. I have asked david to add this to buzz touch self hosted when he gets the chance. With buzz touches push notifications I tweaked the sound name as the screen to push and made the amendments to react to that. I just set the sound as a default one so sound would still be played. It sounds like you know what your doing anyway

ThomasB Lost but trying Posts: 162 Reg: Jun 23, 2011 Palo Alto 3,270	01/03/14 04:08 PM (11 years ago) Kittsy, Ha ha, I wouldn't say I know what I'm doing. More like...can take a few wild guesses and sometimes blunder into a working solution. Your response sounds really good. Just have to figure out how to use the app delegate in this case. Thanks! Comments Kittsy, Ha ha, I wouldn't say I know what I'm doing. More like...can take a few wild guesses and sometimes blunder into a working solution. Your response sounds really good. Just have to figure out how to use the app delegate in this case. Thanks!

DougJoseph Aspiring developer Posts: 161 Reg: Jan 30, 2016 Stonewood 2,210	02/18/16 09:56 AM (9 years ago) I am much in need of something such as either one of the solutions you mentioned. Kittsy, would you mind to show me the code you changed/added (presumably to AppDelegate) to get that kind of function to happen? Comments I am much in need of something such as either one of the solutions you mentioned. Kittsy, would you mind to show me the code you changed/added (presumably to AppDelegate) to get that kind of function to happen?

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