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Pushed for iOS v1.9.3 Release Notes

Hi everyone!

Today we’re glad to introduce our Pushed app for iOS v1.9.3

This new release includes several updates, upgrades and also few bug fixes. 

Among the list:

- iOS Dark Mode support: Pushed now supports Dark Mode

- iOS 13 upgrades 

- Layout redesign: Discover and Activity has been deprecated to offer a simpler user experience

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Android App Issues - 15/12/2020

Since yesterday, followed by a major API upgrade in Pushed, Pushed Android app has been experiencing issues that prevents users using the app normally. Our development team is working to fix the issue as soon as possible. We will be updating the status in getpushedapp and this post.

- 08:25 (European CET): Pushed Android app fails to load.

- 11:36 (European CET): We have identified and fixed the issue. Android app should be working as usual.

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Pushed in the Real World: Envoyer deployments

This week we feature a simple yet handy real world integration that will be very useful for people using Laravel's Envoyer service. For those who are unfamiliar with it, Envoyer is a service that allows you to deploy PHP and Laravel applications without any downtime.

We're quite big fans of Laravel, in fact, Pushed website is built with Laravel, so this is an integration we use ourselves every day.

The goal of this integration is simple: to make Envoyer notify us each time a deployment starts and finishes. To do so we will take advantage of Envoyer's Deployment Hooks feature, that allow us to trigger action on every stage of the deployment process. We will add push notifications in two actions:

At the beginning of the deployment

Once the deployment has finished

(but feel free to add as many as you like).

To enable push notifications in Pushed for every Envoyer deployment just follow this simple steps:

Open “Deployment Hooks” and click on “+ Add Hook”, a modal window will appear:

Then all you have to do is to insert the bash script:

curl -X POST -s \  --form-string "app_key=<your_app_key>" \  --form-string "app_secret=<your_app_secret>" \  --form-string "target_type=<your_target_type>" \  --form-string "target_alias=<your_target_alias>" \  --form-string "content={{ project }} deployment started {{ branch }} ({{ author }})." \  https://api.pushed.co/1/push

Note we use special Envoyer’s variables.

That’s all! Now we will receive Pushed notifications on each Envoyer deployment.

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Using email to reach your subscribers

In a continuous effort to make Pushed easier to use for our customers, we have enabled a new target_type that will enhance user targeting.

If you need to send a notification to a certain user, you now have three options: using email, PushedID or OAuth token. 

It is pretty simple to explain :) If you know the email of the user that is subscribed to your channel, you can directly send notifications to them using the following request:

curl -X POST -s \  

--form-string "app_key=your_app_key" \  

--form-string "app_secret=your_app_secret" \  

--form-string "target_type=email" \  

--form-string "email=john@doe.com" \  

--form-string "content=Your notification content." \

  https://api.pushed.co/1/push

In our docs, you can find multiple examples of sending a push message using user-based targets.

Happy pushing!

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Pushed in the Real World: Zombie Detecting Smart Security Owl

It’s been a while since our latest post here in our blog. We mainly used it to announce technical announcements and few more things. This is going to change dramatically, and today we want to announce a new series called “Pushed in the real world” where we will showcase real applications of Pushed of people not related to use that uses Pushed to make incredible things.

This week we would like to feature T3ch Flicks channels both educational and funny video on “how they put a super spooky twist on a mundane household classic: the security camera”.

In the video, they will show you how to make a night vision owl which uses image processing to track people. Once they track down someone, the owl will send you a notification through Pushed to let you know someone is there!

As they say: “If you want to keep an eye out for approaching zombies on Halloween or just check your garden the rest of the year-round, this is the one for you. Security doesn’t have to be boring to be effective!”

Here you have full instructions on how to do it yourself:

https://www.instructables.com/id/Smart-Security-Owl/

Hope you like this project, this is exactly why we built Pushed, so users can have a very simple way of getting notifications without the hassle of developing an app!

See you in the next edition of Pushed In The Real World!

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Infrastructure upgrades: 2018-03-17 00:30 UTC

Start: 2018-03-17 00:30 UTC

End: 2018-03-17 02:30 UTC

Hello,

As you may have noticed, this is the second major upgrade and hopefully will be the latest time we experience downtime while updating our systems. With these upgrades we will be able to provide consisten performance and zero downtime on our service even though some parts of our infrastructure goes down.

During the above window the development team will be performing important infrastructure upgrades. This is upgrade is required to ensure optimal performance of the Pushed infrastructure and enable new features and more notifications throughput in the future.

Expected Impact: The impact of this upgrade will affect all Pushed services, therefore, API, Site and mobile applications will be offline during the upgrade.

Approximately 30 minutes prior to the maintenance we will post an update on twitter.com/getpushedapp and periodic updates will follow as work progresses.

Do not hesitate to contact support if you have any additional questions or concerns. You may do so by opening a ticket, or by replying to this email.

Thank you,

Pushed Development Team

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Thursday power 🎶 Featuring Axefield, Portable Sunsets, Kuniyuki Takahashi, Michel Cleis, Koett, Blondes, Affkt, Felipe Vanegas, Floris, Fanastic Twins & Sexazoid

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Pushed for iOS v1.8.2 Release Notes

Hi everyone!

Today we’re glad to introduce our Pushed app for iOS v1.8.2

This new release includes several updates, upgrades and also few bugfixes. Among the list:

- iPhone X native support: Pushed now supports iPhone X layout.

- iPad Support: Pushed now supports iPad (all versions) layout.

- iOS 11 upgrades (the new operating system introduced lots of changes and Pushed app has updated it’s code in order to achieve optimal performance).

- Upgraded registration of the devices to ensure connectivity.

In the upcoming weeks we’ll also release a major update to support iOS rich notifications. A long overdue update that will take place this month.

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Infrastructure upgrades: 2018-03-03 00:00 UTC

Start: 2018-03-03 00:00 UTC

End: 2018-03-03 03:00 UTC

Hello,

During the above window the development team will be performing important infrastructure upgrades. This is upgrade is required to ensure optimal performance of the Pushed infrastructure and enable new features and more notifications throughput in the future.

Expected Impact: The impact of this upgrade will affect all Pushed services, therefore, API, Site and mobile applications will be offline during the upgrade.

Approximately 30 minutes prior to the maintenance we will post an update on twitter.com/getpushedapp and periodic updates will follow as work progresses.

Do not hesitate to contact support if you have any additional questions or concerns. You may do so by opening a ticket, or by replying to this email.

Thank you,

Pushed Development Team

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Be notified on every Envoyer deployment

Envoyer is a service made by Laravel creator Taylor Otwell in order to provide easy and zero downtime php deployments.

As part of our infrastructure, Pushed uses Envoyer to deploy tiny parts of our microservices in the cloud, and we found very useful to track those deployments and be notified every time there’s a new one.

This recipe will guide you through the process of setting up pushed notifications when your deployment starts and ends. It will use Envoyer Deployment Hooks feature to add two simple curl commands every time the deploy starts and ends.

1.- Go to “Deployment Hooks” and click on “Clone New Release > Before” action

2.- Add pushed curl command (you can copy it from your App/Channel settings or ). This simple command will send a POST request to Pushed API in order to send the notification.

3.- Repeat the same on “Purge Old Releases > After” action

That’s all! From now and on every time there is a new deployment you will be notified when it started and finished.

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Network Maintenance 2017-04-03 22:00 UTC

Start: 2017-04-03 22:00 UTC

End: 2017-04-04 01:00 UTC

Hello,

During the above window the networking team will be performing router maintenance. This is pro-active maintenance to ensure optimal performance of the networking infrastructure and enable new features in the future.

Expected Impact: We expect the impact of this maintenance to be minimal, however; you may experience brief moments of increased latency and small amounts of packet loss lasting up to 2 minutes while traffic is re-routed.

Approximately 30 minutes prior to the maintenance we will post an update on twitter.com/getpushedapp and periodic updates will follow as work progresses.

Do not hesitate to contact support if you have any additional questions or concerns. You may do so by opening a ticket, or by replying to this email.

Thank you,

Pushed Development Team

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Register Desktop Devices

Hi there! How are you?

We’re great, thanks for asking :) Today we want to give you some instructions on how to receive Push Notifications on your desktop devices. That basically means receiving Push Notifications in Chrome, Firefox and Safari.

We updated the process a few days ago because his technology is so new that we had a few bugs in the past, but during last weeks we have completely rewritten the code that registers and handles Push Notifications in those browsers.

Steps for registering your browser and receive Push Notifications are pretty easy.

1.- Open your Pushed Account and click on the screen icon near your user and click on Register Current Browser:

2.- The browser will ask for permission (depending on the browser the prompt will look different):

Chrome

Firefox

Safari

If you want to stop receiving notification you can go to your account timeline and unlink the desired device.

That would be all for today! Stay tuned for new features in the upcoming days :)

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Pushed Plugin for Wordpress v2.2

Quick Update: We release a new update for our wordpress plugin. The new release improves control over several issues when sending a push notification.

Due to how Pushed works, a push notification is not processed (aka sent) if there are no subscribers in the selected Pushed App or Channel. Because we don’t automatically subscribe App/Channel owners to their own apps, a lot of people have contacted our support center wondering why their messages were not sent although credentials were right. The reason in the 99% of the cases was the lack of subscribers, so this update explicitly notifies the user in case there are no subscribers.

See you around and keep up with this 2017 goals! :)

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Pushed for Android v1.1 Release Notes

Happy new year to everyone!

We’re super excited about 2017, we’ve been working pretty hard the last few weeks to bring on innovation and new features to Pushed. Today’s announcement wants to remark a small update to our Android app.

There’s no big things going on in this update, mainly minor bug fixing, and an improved handling of login validation errors.

See you around!

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Safari Browser Update

Hi!

As you may know from our latest posts, Pushed is in constant evolution to offer the best platform to send and receive notifications without developing your own app. To keep our innovation going, sometimes is necessary a little bit of our users collaboration.

Starting tomorrow (2016-12-20 00:00 UTC), all Safari devices will need an small update. All you need to do is generate again the required permissions so Pushed can send Safari notifications.

Here's a quick guide on how to perform this update:

1.- Open Safari and go to Preferences → Notifications, then Mark Pushed and click on Remove:

2.- Open Pushed and click on the screen icon next to your user email:

3.- A small window will appear, click on Register Now and accept Safari alert to start receiving notifications in the browser:

Browser Notifications are now available from Chrome, Firefox and Safari, so feel free to connect as many browser as you wish.

If you have any issue please do not hesitate contacting us.