iOS Push Notification custom format

Question

I\'m new to all iOS push notification domain. I have tried a basic push notification using the following code and it works perfectly. I\'m using \"using JdSoft.Apple.Apns.No

Answer 1

You are not allowed to put custom tags inside aps tag. Here's what documentations says about it:

Providers can specify custom payload values outside the Apple-reserved aps namespace. Custom values must use the JSON structured and primitive types: dictionary (object), array, string, number, and Boolean.

So in your case you should do something like:

{
    "aps": {
        "alert": "Hello World",
        "sound": "default"
    },
    "Person": {
        "Address": "this is a test address",
        "Name": "First Name",
        "Number": "023232323233"
    }
}

Therefore you can read your custom payload with looking for it's key in main JSON, rather than in "aps":

NSLog(@"%@",notification['Person']['Address']);

Above will output:

this is a test address

You could find more about custom payloads, along with some examples in Apple docs.

Regards, HrisTo

Answer 2

I am using push sharp library.

 public static JObject CreatePayload(APNSNotification apnsNotification, object content, int Ntype)
        {
            var payload = new Dictionary<string, object>();
            var aps = new Dictionary<string, object>();


            if ((int)NotificationType.CONFERENCE == Ntype)
            {
                var confNotification = new ConferenceNotification();
                confNotification = (ConferenceNotification)content;

                aps.Add("alert", confNotification.title);
                aps.Add("subtitle", confNotification.body);
                aps.Add("badge", confNotification.badgeCount);

                payload.Add("aps", aps);


                payload.Add("confId", confNotification.confId);
                payload.Add("pageFormat", confNotification.pageFormat);
                payload.Add("pageTitle", confNotification.pageTitle);
                payload.Add("webviewURL", confNotification.webview_URL);
                payload.Add("notificationBlastID", confNotification.notificationBlastID);
                payload.Add("dataValue", confNotification.dataValue);
                payload.Add("pushtype", "Events");
            }
            else if ((int)NotificationType.NEWS == Ntype)
            {
                var newsNotification = new NewsNotification();
                newsNotification = (NewsNotification)content;

                aps.Add("alert", newsNotification.title);
                aps.Add("subtitle", newsNotification.subtitle);
                aps.Add("badge", newsNotification.badgeCount);

                payload.Add("aps", aps);

                payload.Add("articleId", newsNotification.articleId);
                payload.Add("msgcnt", newsNotification.msgcnt);
                payload.Add("type", newsNotification.type);
                payload.Add("pushtype", "News");
            }

            return JObject.Parse(Newtonsoft.Json.JsonConvert.SerializeObject(payload));
        }

Answer 3

You can add Title, Subtitle, body and many other keys as

{
  "aps": {
    "alert": {
      "title": "Hey!