Understanding Push Notification
Push notification relies on the MPNS to dispatch notifications to the phone. The process works like this:
1. A phone app requests subscription to the MPNS using a notification channel.
2. The MPNS returns a URI, where notifications can be sent.
3. The phone app forwards the URI to any third-party service (such as a web service created by you) that wants to send the phone app notifications (see Figure 15.1).
FIGURE 15.1 An app subscribes to the MPNS, which is then forwarded to a third-party server.
The Push Notification URI is the address of the MPNS plus an identifier for phone device. Having received the push ...
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