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

I agree with @MacTeo. You can delivery a push notification with a payload that contains only one attribute (Sound, Alert (or message) and badge.

With your requirement, keep track of the users device on the server when they open and close the app (foreground and background). If something happens then you can check to see the device's state on the server. You could then decide on how to construct a notification (if any is necessary) base on the last reported state of the device.

Just spitballing:

You could, if you wanted to (however, it isn't what the APNs is designed to do), deliver a push notification with only a badge count = 0 and pass some extra dictionary data with it. That would not alert the user and could be handled in the app if it was in the foreground.