Create your first mobile push notifications for Android

Create your first mobile push notifications for Android

Mobile push notifications help drive appropriate interactions to boost conversions on Android devices. You will get a complete walkthrough on setting up Mobile Push Notifications for Android in PageSense. You will learn all the configurations needed, the integration steps, and the best practices to help you get those notifications delivered. Whether you are starting from scratch or optimizing an existing setup, this document has all the detailed, step-by-step instructions you'll need to successfully integrate Android devices with PageSense mobile push notifications. Let's begin!

1. On the left pane, click on Mobile, then click Mobile Push under Engage.

2. Click on New Mobile Push Notification and give your experiment a unique name.

3. Choose the App you intend to send notifications to and select the OS you are targeting.
Notes
You can only choose from Apps that have already been created. You can not create a new one inside mobile push notifications.
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How to create an App?
Under Apps, click on Register New App and give your app an unique name. Voila! Your App is created!
4. Choose your Notification Type and set up your settings according to your requirements under Advanced Options.

5. Enter the information you need under each heading. You can customize all the details as per requirement.
Notes
Android notification glossary
Category: Helps you categorize your notifications.
Priority: Helps you choose the priority level of your notification.
On-click action: Helps you pre-define what action happens when users interact with the notification.

6. Enable the Buttons toggle.

7. Label your Buttons and use the options to customize them according to your preferences.

8. Select All Visitors as your target audience for your push notifications, or you can even create a Custom Audience to narrow down and segment them further.

9. Give your custom audience a unique identification name and a short description. Choose the segment, modifier, and value according to your notification type.
Notes
The AND/OR condition you choose for the main group will apply to all the consecutive sub-sets under it.
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Within each custom audience segment, you can create multiple main groups and subsets to suit your requirements.
10. Choose the custom event you’d like to execute via this push notification.

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You need to create an Event before configuring push notifications. 
Notes
New event cannot be created inside the mobile push notification setup.
11. Once you select your event, choose an event attribute and set your conversion deadline.
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Event Attributes need to be created when an App is created - you cannot create one inside the setup.
Notes
Conversion Deadline is the minimum required time set by you for end-users to perform an action via the notifications.
12. To enable event attributes, click on the toggle. Choose the attribute, modifier, and value listed.


Similar to custom audience, within each event attribute, you can create multiple groups and subsets to suit your requirements.
Notes
The AND/OR condition you choose for the main group will apply to all the consecutive sub-sets under it. But 
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Within each event attribute segment, you can create multiple main groups and sub-sets as per requirement.
13.  Check all the configuration steps before launching the experiment.
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You can preview your notification settings for both Android and iOS.
We hope this documentation helps make the process easy for you. Please feel free to reach out to us anytime by dropping an email to support@zohopagesense.com if you need more explanation or have any questions.