• Getting Started

• Templates

• Creating a notification

  • Using the Remote Server API
  • Using The Admin Console

• Objects

Getting Started

Creative notifications are all about making your Android notifications richer and sending multiple contents in one notification, thus increasing your opening rate and user engagement

The notifications are Android Remote Views, that are visible when the notification is located first at the device's notification bar and there is enough space to display it. If that is not the case the small regular view of the notification will be displayed. 

PushApps offers 3 templates of layouts that are embedded in the Android SDK , you are not required to design anything, only choose the relevant content for your notifications as usual. The notifications can have images, you will just need to supply those images URLs.

Each notification has a main layout and up to three buttons, clicks on each of those views are handled separately with actions that can be predefined or dynamically determined from the notification's payload.

Creative Notifications can be sent using the Remote Server API or the Admin Console.

Templates

We currently offer 3 templates, each of them with a unique id to identify it.

Creating a notification

Using the Remote Server API

The creative notifications are created with our CreateNotification API call

You will need to construct a JSON object with the key Template and add it to the request's JSON body.

Here are JSON examples of our 3 templates, the goTo keys inside the Actions object are just examples:

Template with Id "1":

Template with Id "2":

Template with Id "3":

Using The Admin Console

You can also construct the notification with these 2 steps, while creating a notification in the Main or Testing tab, by clicking on the  Add creative content to your message! button:

You will be presented with a form which in you can fill the creative notification's data: titles, subtitles and links to images :

When you click on Save, you will see the newly created Json data in the Custom Json Value text box, and the key Template in the Custom Json Key text box. This indicates that your current notification contains the creative notification feature:

Now proceed with the rest of the notification creation process, when you are done you can click on the Click To Push It! button and send your notification, it's that easy!

Objects

 MainLayout

the view that appears at the top of notification, Can be embedded with combinations of image, title and text.

Button

the view that is attached to the bottom of the main layout, there can be up to 3 buttons in a notifications, they can be embedded with combinations of image, title and text.