Push Notification of events in Notes Pro
Apple has officially announced version 3.0 of their iPhone software and with this comes an important announcement for Notes Pro - the addition of Push notification. But - like all good things - it has its drawbacks.
Apple’s push notification requires a central server on the developer’s end to push notifications to Apple. What this means is that to implement this feature Notes Pro would require your Lotus Notes server to send a central JM Interactive server data and then the server at JM Interactive server would push notification out to your phone.
We haven’t tested whether this is even feasable yet - as the Push servers are not available to developers - but we would like to know if this is something our potential and current users would be interested in. We could have varying levels of notification as well - a simple badge alerting you of a new email - or a verbose popup with the sender and/or subject line. Per Apple, these notifications are not 100% reliable nor are they secure, so this is something to take into consideration as well.
Please take a second to answer the poll on the side of the website and let us know your preference.
Lastly - a little more about their announcement. They have still not opened up the calendaring application to external apps. This means - for the time being - that using the calendar on Notes Pro will stay within Notes Pro and cannot sync up to your iPhone’s internal calendar. This is a limitation of the SDK we hope will be lifted in so we can fully integrate into the iPhone in a future version of Notes Pro.
Posted on 03/23 at 12:01 PM
Apple’s push notification requires a central server on the developer’s end to push notifications to Apple. What this means is that to implement this feature Notes Pro would require your Lotus Notes server to send a central JM Interactive server data and then the server at JM Interactive server would push notification out to your phone.
We haven’t tested whether this is even feasable yet - as the Push servers are not available to developers - but we would like to know if this is something our potential and current users would be interested in. We could have varying levels of notification as well - a simple badge alerting you of a new email - or a verbose popup with the sender and/or subject line. Per Apple, these notifications are not 100% reliable nor are they secure, so this is something to take into consideration as well.
Please take a second to answer the poll on the side of the website and let us know your preference.
Lastly - a little more about their announcement. They have still not opened up the calendaring application to external apps. This means - for the time being - that using the calendar on Notes Pro will stay within Notes Pro and cannot sync up to your iPhone’s internal calendar. This is a limitation of the SDK we hope will be lifted in so we can fully integrate into the iPhone in a future version of Notes Pro.
Posted on 03/23 at 12:01 PM