Push Notifications without alert

Question

Can I get push notifications without alert view? The idea in what service for game will send notifications as response for change game state (may be game state will store in database), if this is impossible, what you can suggest about how me send new game state to each connected game client as response of changing game state.

Game will be developing for iPad.

Thanks, Roman

Answer 1

For me @Ajay answer is not correct (sorry).

With push notification you can choose between three user options: text message (alerts), sounds and badges. Every push notification can contain one or more of these options, so you can send for example a notification with sound and badge, but without message and in this case any alert is shown.

Note that you can even pass hidden options in a private dictionary to your application.