Where to move with Parse Push?

The Parse service, which allowed, among other things, to easily program sending push notifications, closes on January 28 ; 8 days left. Time to move (This is a joke, in fact, it was necessary to move a long time ago).

We know two good replacement services:

1. Amazon Simple Notification Service (AWS SNS) . The first one million dollars a month is free, then no more than $ 1 for every million devices that received a message (there’s a tricky scheme , we’ll omit it for short). You can create an unlimited number of broadcast channels with an unlimited number of subscribers and watch the number of subscribers in the channels. And all this without backend! Easily export and import APNS and GCM tokens, all certificates are your own. By the way, AWS supports not only Google and Apple, but also Windows, Baidu and many others, can send SMS (only in America) and letters (cheaper than everyone else on the market). The most important thing is that you control the entire payload, leaving the push provider, so that you can access the most fashionable innovations from Apple and Google. Documentation: an overview of the push in the SNS , a high-level scheme that needs to be done to send a message. Minus - you have to write code for mobile applications that sends tokens to the Amazon API. There is a scheme and pseudocode , but an error in implementation, as you understand, will be very expensive.

   
   

2. Firebase Cloud Messaging from Google . Free. Unlimited number of channels with an unlimited number of subscribers. Cons: there is no complete control over the payload - only those functions of the platform that are implemented by Google are available. You can not see the number of subscribers in the channel and there is no export of tokens from the server (there is import). But there is a fat plus: automatic management of tokens - just turn on the library for iOS or Android and it starts working.

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