Push Notifications without alert

Question

Can I get push notifications without alert view? The idea in what service for game will send notifications as response for change game state (may be game state will store in

Answer 1

Why not!

You can send a hidden push notification without any alert, banner or sound.

PHP CODE

without a text:

$payload['aps'] = array('badge'=> 0, 'sound' => 'default');

Without text and sound

$payload['aps'] = array('badge'=> 0);

and on your ios end you can make a condition for this:

//Receiving a Push Notification
- (void)application:(UIApplication *)application didReceiveRemoteNotification:(NSDictionary *)userInfo
{
    NSMutableDictionary *pushNotiFicationDict = [userInfo objectForKey:@"aps"];
    NSLog(@":%@", pushNotiFicationDict);

    if([pushNotiFicationDict objectForKey:@"alert"])
    {
        // when push notification has text
        UIAlertView * alert = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"MESSAGE" message:[pushNotiFicationDict objectForKey:@"alert"]
                                                        delegate:nil
                                               cancelButtonTitle:@"ok"
                                               otherButtonTitles:nil];
        [alert show];
    }
    else
    {
        // when push notification does not have text
    }
}

But i think you can not perform any action if application is not running or running in background.