Overview
Push notifications are one of the means to keep your users engaged with your app even when they are not actively using the app. These messages directly push the information to a user's device. Push notifications can be images, texts, or interactive elements. Apptics' push notifications allows you to send contextual and relevant notifications to your app users.
Different types of notifications
Here is a list of different types of push notifications that can be created using Apptics' push notifications for engaging with your app users.
- Promotional notifications - These are used to encourage users with some deals, discounts, and so on.
- In-app notifications - These are used while a user is actively using the app such as guided tours of the app.
- Rich push notifications - These can include images, videos, sound for further user engagement.
- Reminder notifications - These are used to remind a user to complete the actions that they left such as payment reminder.
Benefits of using push notifications
Push notifications offers an additional way of keeping your user engagement, retention, and conversion high. They help you in maintaining a higher app visibility, building great communication with your app users, and driving your app users to take actions within the app.
To be able to use Apptics' push notifications for your Android or iOS apps, you need to complete the setup for the same. In the below sections we have detailed the steps on how to get the private key (JSON file) from Firebase and the p12 certificate from Apple for enabling the use of push notifications.
How to use push notifications in Apptics?