Create your own push notification service

It's absolutely normal to look for a qualitative push notification provider, to get more push notifications for your applications. With just a few steps, you can create your own push notification service, without the need of a real developer next to you. Online, you can find various tutorials on how it's done, so you have a great volume of information, to get going with the process. But the most important thing you should know, is the fact that the push notification server is the key element of this whole process, the kernel of an application and without it, you might fail into doing a great job.

First of all, you need to know that a Blackberry push notification system runs well on background, maintaining a permanent connection with the server, allowing you to read your messages known of their existence through created alerts. You can also customize your Lion push notifications, or notifications of any type through a quick contact to APN so that it will deliver you the specified message, on the application you decide to keep on monitoring. There are a few things you need to know about the connection between you phone and the APN, so here are the steps you should follow to get your own push notification service.

The creation of a certificate is a prime part to the push notifications integration. You should do a request to get a SSL certificate on APN, but there are also sites that quickly and automatically generate one for you.  However, if deciding to do it by yourself, here's the steps you need to pass through. Launch from your device the Keychain Access application, then select the “Certificate Assistant” option, to inform Apple of your request. Complete the fields with real information, check the “Save to disk” button, then hit continue. Save your request and this is how you will get your certificate for additional iPhone push notifications. The next step requires the generation of an App ID. You have to register for the iPhone Developer Program and submit you request there. After doing this, you can customize your App ID, by simply clicking on the “Configure” button. After everything is done, you can download the application and install it, to send push notifications to your application. Create afterwards a provisioning profile, then download this one, too and install it. You now have to connect your device to the computer, or Mac, so you can properly install it on your mobile device. The last thing you should create, is the push notification provider. This is practically the easiest way to generate your own system of such pop-up messages and implement them on your mobile phone.

Moreover, you get to generate Android push notifications, too, for the applications that work on the Android operating system. Push notifications represent another step forward into the mobile technology and they sure make more useful your device. Since phones became useful as cameras, internet providers, they can now be used as a real computer with real time applications and alerts. To conclude with, these amazing applications reduce your battery consumption and also time spent on refreshing your inbox and checking on other accounts. Mails, invitations and everything else, are clearly visible to you, in real time, with the help of the push notifications installed.