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Notify Slack users of push notification status with webhooks

Webhooks make it extremely easy to send push notifications to all of your iOS and Android users with a single request. In this tutorial, learn about webhooks and how you can take advantage of them to send a notification to Slack every time a user reads or opens the sent notification.

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Azure function running Java for Android notifications

Azure Functions are serverless and work on a pay as you go model, which is useful if you only need to send push notifications every so often. In this tutorial, explore how to setup Pusher Beams on an Android client using an Azure Function running Java to trigger the notifications.

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Pusher Beams client API demo for Android

This tutorial will help you understand what each part of the Beams API does in a client Android app. You will go you through code examples to explore what each method does, and an Android project with pointers for how to set the demo up and how to send push notifications to test it.

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Send push notifications to Android using an Azure function running NodeJS

In this tutorial you will learn how to trigger push notifications on an Android device by using Beams and a Microsoft Azure function running NodeJS. The tutorial provides step by step guidance to setting up an Azure function and building a simple demo app.

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Sending push notifications from Dart to Android and iOS

Learn how to send push notifications from a Dart server to Android and iOS. This tutorial walks you through building the backend in Dart, before creating simple demo apps for both Android and iOS. Full code samples are provided.

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Creating a Laravel Logger - Part 6: Creating our web application

In this six-part series, build a Laravel error logging service. You will create a custom Laravel package to include in Laravel apps, along with web, Android and iOS frontends. Alerts will publish in realtime, featuring push notifications to mobile. In part six, build the web frontend.

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Creating a Laravel Logger - Part 5: Creating our iOS application

In this six-part series, build a Laravel error logging service. You will create a custom Laravel package to include in Laravel apps, along with web, Android and iOS frontends. Alerts will publish in realtime, featuring push notifications to mobile. In part five, build the iOS app.

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Becoming a backend developer - Part 3: Connecting to the server from a mobile app

This is a tutorial for mobile app developers. In this three-part series, we will cover all the basics of what it takes to become a backend developer. You will create backends using Node and Dart, with mobile frontend examples using Android, Swift, and Flutter. In part three, build the frontend.

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Creating a Laravel Logger - Part 4: Creating our Android application

In this six-part series, build a Laravel error logging service. You will create a custom Laravel package to include in Laravel apps, along with web, Android and iOS frontends. Alerts will publish in realtime, featuring push notifications to mobile. In part four, build the Android app.

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Creating a Laravel Logger - Part 3: Integrating our Pusher logger package

In this six-part series, build a Laravel error logging service. You will create a custom Laravel package to include in Laravel apps, along with web, Android and iOS frontends. Alerts will publish in realtime, featuring push notifications to mobile. In part three, integrate the logger package into a Laravel app.

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Becoming a backend developer - Part 2: Building the server

In this three-part series, we will cover all the basics of what it takes for a mobile app developer to become a backend developer. You will create backends using Node and Dart, with mobile frontend examples using Android, Swift, and Flutter.

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Creating a Laravel logger - Part 2: Creating a Pusher logger package

In this six-part series, build a Laravel error logging service. You will create a custom Laravel package to include in Laravel apps, along with web, Android and iOS frontends. Alerts will publish in realtime, featuring push notifications to mobile. In part two, create the logger package.

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Creating a Laravel logger - Part 1: Getting started

In this six-part series, build a Laravel error logging service. You will create a custom Laravel package to include in Laravel apps, along with web, Android and iOS frontends. Alerts will publish in realtime, featuring push notifications to mobile. In part one, build the log dispatcher.

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Becoming a backend developer - Part 1: Foundational concepts

This is a tutorial series for mobile app developers. In this three-part series, we will cover all the basics of what it takes to become a backend developer. You will create backends using Node and Dart, with mobile frontend examples using Android, Swift and Flutter. In part one, cover key concepts around APIs.

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Build a shopping cart with Kotlin - Part 3: Adding reactivity to the app

This three-part series will walk you through building a shopping cart for an Android app using Kotlin. In part three, use RxKotlin to make the app UI reactive, and add the final features to the app.

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Build a shopping cart with Kotlin - Part 1: Listing products

This three-part series will walk you through building a shopping cart for an Android app using Kotlin. In part one, set up your project, prepare your API calls and create a list of products.

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Build a shopping cart with Kotlin - Part 2: Building the shopping cart logic

This three-part series will walk you through building a shopping cart for an Android app using Kotlin. In part two, implement the shopping cart logic.

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Updating content in realtime without confusing your users

This tutorial looks at some of the potential downsides of updating content in realtime, and presents solutions. You will build a simple Android app, and experiment with ways to improve the user experience of realtime functionality.

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Building a chatbot for Android with Kotlin and Dialogflow

Build on an existing Kotlin Android chat app to create a chatbot feature. Use Dialogflow to generate the chatbot, with calls to other APIs to implement the desired chat features. You will use Gradle and Kotlin for the backend. Messages are sent and received in realtime.

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Getting started with ConstraintLayout in Kotlin - Part 5: building a simple app using ConstraintLayout

This five-part series takes a detailed look at the ConstraintLayout feature in Android. You will learn about its key features, and build two sample apps in Kotlin. In part five, build on what you've learned to create a sample application.

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