Which Apple Push Notification Service Java library should I use? [closed]

Answer 1

Looks like java-apns is being updated. Last commit was 1 month ago...

https://github.com/notnoop/java-apns

I haven't used it yet but seems at least the project is not dead.

Update in 2020: The project is dead and is based on deprecated API which will stop working in Nov. 2020.

Answer 2

I would not recomment JavaPns if you intend to use it's queue mode because you want to send many messages at a time. There's a really nasty Bug which makes you lose push notifications, but the library says, everything was sent.

Answer 3

If anybody else is looking for an APNs library in Java, we at RelayRides just released Pushy (http://relayrides.github.io/pushy/). It does some things differently than the other two contenders (like async network IO), so it can send large numbers of messages really quickly. We actually use it in production, too, so it's actively maintained by our engineers. Enjoy!

EDIT: To be clear, Pushy is free and open-source (MIT license).

Answer 4

I use javapns, so far I didn't see issues (My project is still on development progress); But I saw the project wasn't updated since 2 years ago. and java-apns is keeping update, I will have a try.

Updated my answer, I started to use pushy for APN since 3 month ago, it really has better performance. Now I suggest to use pushy.

Answer 5

I faced the same issue a few month back with a Java backend for one of our apps and after searching for libraries (Which in fact wasn't even a possible option on the Google App Engine) I found Urban Airship.

Urban Airship is a middle man between your backend and the various push notification services (it does support APNS, but as well android / blackberry / Win). You just need to configure your Push service on their platform, implement a REST call to one of their endpoint and done!

They have free plan starting with 1 Million (1.000.000) notifications / month.

Really good service so far and it's giving us the ability to quickly scale to other push services without having to implement specific code on our server side.

Answer 6

After digging around for a while, I could only find those two libraries you mentioned so I looked at some of the most recent forks on the java-apns GitHub page and the most recent one I could find was done by a user under the name "froh42". His fork is located here [dead]. The latest commit was 4 days ago, but I'm not sure if this person is actually adding to the repo's core functionality or not since it's very late and I'm too tired to check.

My suggestion would be, if you're going to use java-apns, to look at froh's repo and see if it checks out or not. If it doesn't, you can view the list of forks from the original java-apns repo here. Sorry I couldn't be of more help to you and good luck!

Note: Do not use any of your libraries since those are based on the Binary Provider API which will stop working from Nov. 2020!