The Android Arsenal - Push/Pull Notifications

Warning

Apple will no longer support the legacy binary protocol after March 31, 2021. Java-Apns will stop working. See details in their announcement.

It is recommended to use Pushy instead, which supports Apple's HTTP/2-based APNs protocol.

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Development - Version 1.0.0

There currently is a perelease for 1.0.0 which fixes a number of problems over 0.2.3. There's still a CI test that sporadically fails on Travis-CI only, but not on other test machines I have access to. Supposedly it is a still undetected race condition.

However 1.0.0 Beta fixes a lot of problems over 0.2.x, so even as it is called beta I'd recommend to use the beta instead of the 0.2.3 even for production.

froh42 will return to develop for java-apns in October, so I expect the 1.0.0 final to be released start of November.

Introduction

java-apns is a Java client for Apple Push Notification service (APNs). The library aims to provide a highly scalable interface to the Apple server, while still being simple and modular.

The interface aims to require very minimal code to achieve the most common cases, but have it be reconfigurable so you can even use your own networking connections or JSON library if necessary.

Links: Installation

Features:

Easy to use, high performance APNS Service API
Supports Apple Feedback service
Support Enhanced Apple Push Notification
Support MDM and Newsstand Notifications
Easy to use with Apple certificates
Easy to extend and reuse
Easy to integrate with dependency injection frameworks
Easy to setup custom notification payloads
Supports connection pooling
Supports re-transmission of Notifications after error

Getting started

Add the following dependencies to your pom.xml file:

    <dependency>
         <groupId>com.notnoop.apns</groupId>
         <artifactId>apns</artifactId>
         <version>1.0.0.Beta6</version>
    </dependency>

Sample Code

To send a notification, you can do it in three steps:

Setup the connection

 ApnsService service =
     APNS.newService()
     .withCert("/path/to/certificate.p12", "MyCertPassword")
     .withSandboxDestination()
     .build();

Create and send the message

 String payload = APNS.newPayload().alertBody("Can't be simpler than this!").build();
 String token = "fedfbcfb....";
 service.push(token, payload);

To query the feedback service for inactive devices:

 Map<String, Date> inactiveDevices = service.getInactiveDevices();
 for (String deviceToken : inactiveDevices.keySet()) {
     Date inactiveAsOf = inactiveDevices.get(deviceToken);
     ...
 }

That's it!

Custom Payloads

You can send a message payload, but providing custom fields and localizable alert:

String payload = APNS.newPayload()
            .badge(3)
            .customField("secret", "what do you think?")
            .localizedKey("GAME_PLAY_REQUEST_FORMAT")
            .localizedArguments("Jenna", "Frank")
            .actionKey("Play").build();

service.push(token, payload);

Enhanced Notification Format

You can use the enhanced notification format to get feedback from Apple about notifications that were unable to be processed.

 String payload = APNS.newPayload()
            .badge(3)
            .customField("secret", "what do you think?");
            .localizedKey("GAME_PLAY_REQUEST_FORMAT")
            .localizedArguments("Jenna", "Frank")
            .actionKey("Play").build();

 int now =  (int)(new Date().getTime()/1000);

 EnhancedApnsNotification notification = new EnhancedApnsNotification(EnhancedApnsNotification.INCREMENT_ID() /* Next ID */,
     now + 60 * 60 /* Expire in one hour */,
     token /* Device Token */,
     payload);

 service.push(notification);

License

Licensed under the New 3-Clause BSD License.

Copyright 2009, Mahmood Ali.
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