Notifications are a powerful tool in the Android developer’s toolkit, helping to keep your users up-to-date on events that are happening inside your application, even when they’re not looking at your ...

Notifications are a helpful feature on any device. They can inform you about important events, let you know when you receive messages, remind you of plans you've made, and provide a brief preview with ...

This week we will tame things down a little, our goal last week was to use all of the apps, no matter how complicated it got. This time, we want to use IF, but keep it simple, looking at just one of ...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been expanded today with a unified alerts platform that gives app developers the ability to send push notifications to users on iOS, Android and Kindle Fire hardware ...

Having a shared coffee maker in the workplace is both a blessing and a curse. It’s nice to have constant access to coffee, but it can be frustrating to find the coffee pot emptied right as you walk in ...

In just a few simple steps, a systems administrator can quickly spin up the required SNS-backed text messaging infrastructure. And with only a few lines of code a developer can quickly create a ...

One of the biggest changes in Apple’s iOS 5, unveiled Monday, is a welcome overhaul to the iOS’s relatively simple notification system. Right now, new alerts pop up in a modal dialog box that ...