Thursday, 1 September 2011

Push Notifications For Android Development

If you want to become one of the well known Android developers, you will learn that implementing push notifications for Android is quite simple. Once you download the SDK, Android application development will be very easy to understand and use. You will set up your first application very fast. There are basically three different ways you could use for implementing push notifications: the poll, SMS and persistent TCP/IP. All of these ways have their disadvantages so you might want to know them before you think about offshore Android development.


Poll

The main idea of the poll is to periodically push the server and get to a real time push. You might opt for this Android development alternative for implementing push notifications. However, besides the advantage that it is free and it is very easy to implement, you need to be aware of the disadvantages too. The biggest disadvantage of them all is that you will actually never be in real time. Thanks to the recent Android development, you will be able to poll once in a while without killing your battery. For example if you will poll at 30 minutes intervals, you might receive a message half an hour later.

SMS

Intercepting text messages is one of the key features of the latest offshore Android development. This method will allow you to push notifications too. Moreover, you will enjoy that unlike polling this method will allow you to be in real time and it is easy to implement as well. However, you need to be aware of the cost disadvantage which may be extremely important. Both you and your user might have to pay serious money when using this Android development.

Persistent TCP/IP

This is the last of the options you have for implementing push notifications on your Android phone. While this Android development will help you stay in real time, you should know that you will surely have problems implementing it. It is known that Android phones are extremely protective and they kill services when they run low on battery. Therefore, you might lose some notifications just because you will not have enough battery on your phone.

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