One server sending push notifications to Android and iOS devices

Question

Our organization has an Android app and an iOS app.

We want to start pushing notification to these apps.

Android has GCM. Apple has APNS.

But we want to create an API which will work on both android and iOS.

What is the easiest way to setup a server so that when a push notification needs to be sent, it knows exactly which server to send the message to?

Answer 1

I use a service called Parse to do my notification pushes to both Android and iOS. They have great documentation and libraries available. You can get some details here: https://parse.com/products/push