How can a web application send push notifications to iOS devices? [closed]

Answer 1

Check out Xtify Web Push notifications. http://getreactor.xtify.com/ This tool allows you to push content onto a webpage and target visitors as well as trigger messages based on browser DOM events. It's designed specifically with mobile in mind.

Answer 2

Google Chrome now supports the W3C standard for push notifications.

http://www.w3.org/TR/push-api/

Answer 3

No, only native iOS applications support push notifications.

UPDATE:
Mac OS X 10.9 & Safari 7 websites can now also send push notifications, but this still does not apply to iOS. Read the Notification Programming Guide for Websites. Also check out WWDC 2013 Session 614.

Answer 4

You can use HTML5 Websockets to introduce your own push messages. From Wikipedia:

"For the client side, WebSocket was to be implemented in Firefox 4, Google Chrome 4, Opera 11, and Safari 5, as well as the mobile version of Safari in iOS 4.2. Also the BlackBerry Browser in OS7 supports WebSockets."

To do this, you need your own provider server to push the messages to the clients.
If you want to use APN (Apple Push Notification) or C2DM (Cloud to Device Message), you must have a native application which must be downloaded through the online store.

Answer 5

Pushbullet is a great alternative for this.

However the user needs to have a Pushbullet account and the app installed (iOS, Android) or plugin installed (Chrome, Opera, Firefox and Windows).

You can use the API by creating a Pushbullet app, and connect your application's user to the Pushbullet user using oAuth2.

Using a library would make it much easier, for PHP I could recommend ivkos/Pushbullet-for-PHP.

Answer 6

No, there is no way for an webapp to receive push notification. What you could do is to wrap your webapp into a native app which has push notifications.