Indie Push Notifications

This guide covers how to send customized push notifications to individual users. We call these notifications "Indie" push notifications.

This video walks through the setup guide below:

Indie Push Notifications Preview:

Here's how our Indie Push Notification system works:

  • Registration: Register a unique identifier for each app user you want to send Indie Push Notifications to.
  • Use: Use the unique identifiers you registered to send Indie Push Notifications using our API.

Prerequisites

1

Create a free Native Notify account

Create a free NativeNotify.com account to get your Native Notify App ID and App Token.

Registration setup:

1

Imports

In your login component, include these imports:

import { registerIndieID, unregisterIndieDevice } from 'native-notify';
2

Check for Hook function

Make sure you are using a Hook function in the component you plan to register your users in. Here is an example:

export default function LoginScreen() {
    ...
}

This link explains Hooks in detail: https://react.dev/reference/react/hooks

3

Register Unique Identifier

Use this code to register your individual user with Native Notify (when your user logs in, for example):

registerIndieID('unique-user-id-string', app-id-number, 'app-token-string');

Character limit:

A sub_id can be at most 256 characters — that is the server-side limit, so keep your unique user ids short (a database id or UUID is plenty).

4

Unregister Unique Identifier

Use this code to unregister your individual user from Native Notify (when you user logs out, for example):

unregisterIndieDevice('unique-user-id-string', app-id-number, 'app-token-string');