So, after saying what I did yesterday, I went home and did a couple of tests, and bugger me, it now works fine! I think I was just impatient :-) My Mac is an older one I got off Trademe for a pretty good price, but it needs more memory I think :-)
Jeremy On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 5:45 PM, Willie <[email protected]> wrote: > Not sure exactly what you’re asking Leigh and how much I understand about > it yet but basically …. > > > > You can register your phone application against a push notification server > so that it can receive notifications from that server, these appear on your > phone in much the same way as email, What’s-App or Update notifications do. > You use either the Apple Push Notification Service for IOS devices, or for > Android devices the Google Cloud Messaging service as the delivery system > (don’t know what windows devices do). > > > > In my case I’m using PARSE.COM as the push notification server, it’s free > and Delphi comes with a ready-made client component (I believe there are > Delphi tutorials that show how to create your own servers if you want to go > that way). I created a “server application” on the parse.com website, > this is a pretty straight forward and generic process, and from this I get > application keys that my phone app will use to subscribe to my PARSE.COM > server app. > > > > I generate notifications for my PARSE server to send out via a website > (PHP) – PARSE give you a number of API SDK’s for different programming > languages that make this process fairly easy to implement. Each client > device that registers against a PARSE.COM server application ends up with > a unique InstallationID and DeviceToken for that server app. When you want > to send out a notification you can use either of these to target individual > phones/tablets or you can target groups (PARSE call these channels). > > > > Once installed and registered, your phone app doesn’t have to be running > for the phone to receive notifications for it, they are received into the > device’s notification centre, when you view them and click on one of your > phone-apps notifications it will automatically open your app. > > > > Having written all of that which probably doesn’t answer your question …. > There are pretty good tutorials by Sarina on the Embarcadero site about > building a phone app (IOS and Android) for both PARSE and Kinvey, she also > takes you through the Notification Server setup. I recommend you go through > those you’ll get a better understanding. > > > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Leigh Wanstead > *Sent:* Wednesday, 20 May 2015 4:29 p.m. > > *To:* NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List > *Subject:* Re: [DUG] Parse.com IPhone 3 > > > > Can anyone explain to me the design of push logic? I am interested to know > how it works? > > > > TIA > > Leigh > > > > On 20 May 2015 at 15:21, Jeremy Coulter <[email protected]> wrote: > > I will have to check when I get home, but sounds right. > > > > On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 3:18 PM, Willie <[email protected]> wrote: > > I initially installed the 6.4 beta, had issues (can’t remember what > exactly sorry Jeremy) so I installed 6.3.1 which seems to run OK against my > XE8 development environment. I see there is a 6.3.2 available now, is that > the version you are talking about? > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Jeremy Coulter > *Sent:* Wednesday, 20 May 2015 3:05 p.m. > *To:* NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List > *Subject:* Re: [DUG] Parse.com IPhone 3 > > > > while we are on the subject of IOS, I recently installed I assume its the > latest, XCode and when I try to send an app to the IOS simulator, I just > get a blank (black) screen. > > Is this the "thing" that Apple broke? Do I need to go back a version of > XCode? > > Just wondering if anyone knows..... > > Jeremy > > > > On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 2:32 PM, Jolyon Smith <[email protected]> > wrote: > > From the iOS Getting Started Guide on Parse.COM: > > Note that we support iOS 6.0 and higher. > > The only iPhone 3 model that can be upgraded to iOS 6 is the 3GS. If your > iPhone 3 is some other, older model then it will not support iOS 6 and > therefore is not supported by PARSE.COM either. > > > > On 20 May 2015 at 14:12, Willie Juson <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I’m trying to develop an app that uses push notifications, specifically > through the PARSE.COM service. I’m having trouble getting a test IPhone3 > to receive push notifications from my website. If I send the notification > via the PARSE.COM website (using their “Send a push” function) the phone > receives it OK, however the phone doesn’t acknowledge any I send from my > website. I am targeting the phone using the devicetoken value as registered > against the PARSE.COM service. It works ok for IPhon4,5 and 6 and an > IPad 3. > > > > Has anyone had any experience with this? > > > > TIA > > > > Willie > > > > _______________________________________________ > NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list > Post: [email protected] > Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi > Unsubscribe: send an email to [email protected] with > Subject: unsubscribe > > > > > _______________________________________________ > NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list > Post: [email protected] > Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi > Unsubscribe: send an email to [email protected] with > Subject: unsubscribe > > > > > _______________________________________________ > NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list > Post: [email protected] > Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi > Unsubscribe: send an email to [email protected] with > Subject: unsubscribe > > > > > _______________________________________________ > NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list > Post: [email protected] > Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi > Unsubscribe: send an email to [email protected] with > Subject: unsubscribe > > > > _______________________________________________ > NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list > Post: [email protected] > Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi > Unsubscribe: send an email to [email protected] with > Subject: unsubscribe >
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