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Push Notifications from the Web?

Hi there,

I am making a web app that I want to send push notifications to users' phones. I have two questions:

1. The tutorial I am seeing covers how to setup push notifications for mobile games(iOS/Android) not web(ie. https://api.playfab.com/docs/tutorials/landing-players/push-notification-basics) yet in this response(https://community.playfab.com/questions/10406/questions-on-push-notifications.html) you say that push notifications can be setup for any device. By that do you mean I can send notifications to a user's phone from a web app, like at a given time for example, and if so is there tutorial covering that?

2. Eventually I want to submit my game to Steam and Apple stores, does that include more setup for push notifications? Thank you!

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We provide API calls which enable Push Notifications for iTunes and Google Play applications, currently (in both cases, a token is required which is available on the service in question for your application). We will be providing Web app push (https://www.w3.org/TR/push-api/) in a future release, but we don't have a schedule for when that will be available, currently.

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mdiminsky avatar image mdiminsky commented ·

Awesome ok. When you said "API calls which enable Push Notifications for iTunes and Google Play applications", which API calls specifically and is a token all you would need to set it up? So n certifications needed or anything like you would need for iOS push notifications?

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brendan avatar image brendan mdiminsky commented ·

The complete guides to setting up and using Push Notifications in PlayFab can be found in our documentation site, here:

https://api.playfab.com/docs/tutorials/landing-players/push-notification-basics

https://api.playfab.com/docs/tutorials/landing-players/push-notification-basics/push-notifications-for-ios

https://api.playfab.com/docs/tutorials/landing-players/push-notification-basics/push-notifications-for-android

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mdiminsky avatar image mdiminsky brendan commented ·

Hi Brendan, ok I'm confused now. The reason I asked you my question in the first place is because those links you sent me are api calls for someone building a game on a mobile device. But you are saying you can push to iTunes and Google Play from web applications and I asked for a tutorial for that.

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wagnerbrock avatar image wagnerbrock commented ·

Thanks for the tutorial. I was exactly looking for this. I've using web push notification service from

https://zetpush.com/

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jrDev answered

Hey,


Is this still a feature coming?


Thanks,

jrDev

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