BlackBerry Android Push Message Server

Question

I'mm having problems when trying to push notifications for my Z10. The device successfully registers for push notifications and I receive the BlackBerry generated registration ID as described in "Creating Push-Enabled Android Apps".

I am having problems though when trying to send notifications to that server.

For regular Android I was using a GCM server library. I had to modify it so that the message is sent to BlackBerry servers i.e. https://cpXXX.pushapi.eval.blackberry.com where XXX is my CPID (Content Provider ID).

The problem is that I receive a 404 in return and don't know what's causing that... Any ideas? the same message gets sent to a regular Android device successfully...

Alternatively, did anyone succeed in sending push messages to your device and if so, could you share how the request should look like?

Answer 1

Finally, I was able to make a push request. You have to push it to BlackBerry servers. I used BB SDK available here. The URL you have to use should look like this:

https://cpXXX.pushapi.eval.blackberry.com/mss/PD_pushRequest

sample code:

IdGenerator idGenerator = new IdGeneratorImpl();

        List<String> addresses = new ArrayList<String>();

        JSONObject message = new JSONObject();
        //populate message with key-value pairs
        String data = message.toString();
        //populate addresses with device PINs

        PushMessageControl pushMessageControl = new PushMessageControl(PPGType.PUBLIC_PUSH, idGenerator, "[ YOUR BlackBerryAppId]", addresses);

        Content content = new TextContent(data, "UTF-8");

        PapService papService = new PapServiceImpl();

        PushSDKProperties properties = new PushSDKPropertiesImpl();
        properties.setPublicPpgAddress("[YOUR BLACKBERRY PPG ADDRESS]");
        properties.setParserSpecialCharacters(BLACKBERRY_PARSER_SPECIAL_CHARACTERS);
        properties.setHttpIsPersistent(false);
        properties.setHttpConnectionTimeout(BLACKBERRY_CONNECTION_TIMEOUT);
        properties.setDtdDeclarationPublic(BLACKBERRY_DTD_DECLARATION_PUBLIC);
        properties.setHttpReadTimeout(BLACKBERRY_READ_TIMEOUT);

        HttpClientImpl client = new HttpClientImpl();
        client.setPushSDKProperties(properties);
        papService.setHttpClient(client);
        papService.setPushSDKProperties(properties);

        PushResponse response = papService.push("[ YOUR BlackBerryAppId]", "[ YOUR BlackBerryPassword]", "[ YOUR BlackBerryAppId]", pushMessageControl, content);

where

private static final int BLACKBERRY_READ_TIMEOUT = 120000;

private static final int BLACKBERRY_CONNECTION_TIMEOUT = 60000;

private static final char[] BLACKBERRY_PARSER_SPECIAL_CHARACTERS = new char[] {'&', '"', ':', '<'};

private static final String BLACKBERRY_DTD_DECLARATION_PUBLIC = "<!DOCTYPE pap PUBLIC \"-//WAPFORUM//DTD PAP 2.1//EN\" \"http://www.openmobilealliance.org/tech/DTD/pap_2.1.dtd\">";