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johnnyutah
Visitor
10 years ago

Roku Push Notifications Equivalent to IOS/Android

Hello all,

I am exploring using push notifications on a Roku app and wanted to ask the Roku forums for any ideas on how to achieve the push notifications functionality, similar to IOS/Android's use. I am not referring to Roku's built in push notifications for billing but an independent method. Any ideas?

I.E. XMPP server or socket.io server with the Roku client connecting via websocket ( is this even possible with roStreamSocket or ifSocket? ) Has any developer implemented websockets for general use? I would not want to use long polling either.

Cheers to any ideas.
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  • EnTerr's avatar
    EnTerr
    Roku Guru
    10 years ago
    I was looking for websockets last year and nothing, seems like dead end.

    I suppose you can do UDP datagrams, though it's quite unclear how long particular firewall/router will hold the NAT mapping, so client will have to ping regularly to keep-alive and if missed, suddenly server will receive it from another port... seems more trouble that worth it.
  • johnnyutah's avatar
    johnnyutah
    Visitor
    10 years ago
    Thanks for the confirmation. Any idea on how to achieve this functionality without websocket?
  • EnTerr's avatar
    EnTerr
    Roku Guru
    10 years ago
    Periodic pull or long polling comes to mind, why not?
    WebSockets has the advantage of being full duplex but give you want 1-way notifications, cost/benefits of long-poll seem the same.
  • sharukh's avatar
    sharukh
    Visitor
    9 years ago
    I am too facing the same issue. I want to enable chat functionality in my Roku app and I want to use XMMP for this. Is it possible to use XMMP within a Roku App ? Please reply !!!!

    Best Regards,
    Sharukh
  • EnTerr's avatar
    EnTerr
    Roku Guru
    9 years ago
    "sharukh" wrote:
    I am too facing the same issue. I want to enable chat functionality in my Roku app and I want to use XMMP for this. Is it possible to use XMMP within a Roku App ?

    i see no issue doing XMMP using its native transport (TCP) or HTTP. You will however have to implement XMMP yourself, i don't know anyone publishing Roku library for that