The title pretty much sums it up. What's the difference between those services exactly and what are the advantages of using one over another ? I'd like to know what's the difference between UA and APN of apple as well ?
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Convenience I guess I havent used it but it seems it will work on both iPhone and android.
C2DM is android(2.2) specify. APN is specify to iphone.
So you will have to work a bit more if your app is on both android and iphone. Urban airship seems to solve this extra step.
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From what I read urban airship gives push support to 1.6 and above if you go pro. Android c2dm only works on 2.2 and above.
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1- Allows the devices running platforms lower than 2.2 ( API level 8 ) to receive push notifications.
2- Handles many requests between the device and the server on behalf of the developer (e.g. the registration tying an APID (Android Push ID - is the Urban Airship ID of a device to which a message can be pushed from the Urban Airship API ) to your application happens automatically ).
3- Broadcasts the messages to all the registered devices ( of course you can do it just by looping on all the registered devices, but eventually Urban Airship still does it for you ).
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