Mobile Push Notifications - Customer Engagement Blog

5 Top Notification Use Cases for Travel & Hospitality

Real-time communication is a must-have for travel and hospitality apps. Here's how you can use SMS and push to optimize your app experience.

Messaging Strategy

What is a push notifications service and how does it work?

Before you can send push notifications to your users, you must configure your app with a push notification service.

Best Practices

10 Effective Push Notification Examples and Why They Work

Take a look at these 10 unique push notification examples and what they do well.

Development

How to Add Push Notifications to a Vue App

Learn how to add push notifications to a Vue app for free using the OneSignal-Vue plugin.

Development

How To Add Android Push Notifications to a React Native Expo App

Learn how to add android push notifications to your React Native Expo app for free by integrating with OneSignal.

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Why Real-Time Alerts are Essential for Investment Apps

As more Americans have hopped onto trading and investment apps, expectations for seamless and real-time stock communications are at an all-time high.

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Statistical Insights from 90 Billion Notifications

How do segmentation, A/B testing, rich media, and other factors impact push notification performance? Check out engagement statistics from 90 billion push notifications.

Best Practices

How to Protect Customer Satisfaction Amidst 2021 Holiday Shipping Delays

How can you protect customer satisfaction amid the 2021 holiday shipping delays? Communicate shipping delays and deadlines early, message customers across their journey, and use channels such as mobile push, web push, SMS to keep buyers in the loop from pre to post-purchase to delivery.

Development

Responding to Android 12 Push Notification Changes

Notification trampolines are no longer allowed with the release of Android 12. Learn what this means, why it matters, and how we adapted our push notification SDK.

News

The State of Notification Support Across Popular Devices in 2021

Push notifications are no longer limited to just mobile applications and websites. Learn how notifications are leveraged in cars, TVs, wearables, game consoles, e-readers, and more.

Development

How to Add Push Notifications to a Cordova Android App

Learn how to use OneSignal to leverage push notifications in your Android app for free.

Messaging Strategy

Why Users Like Personalized Push Notifications

Personalizing your push notifications is a great way to increase your click-through-rates and engagement with your audience.

Development

Adding Push Notifications to an Ionic & Capacitor Android App

Learn how to add push notifications to an Android app built with Ionic & Capacitor (React).

Features & Updates

How to Make Push Notifications More Effective With A/B Testing

Think you got a few clever messages to send your audience, but not sure which one to use? This is where A/B Testing can come in handy.

Messaging Strategy

What You Should and Shouldn't Be Using Push Notifications For

With the typical U.S. smartphone user receiving about 45 notifications a day, push notifications are increasingly being used as the channel of choice to engage with subscribers. As the usage of push notifications grows around the world, so does the rampant misuse of this powerful channel.

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Guide to Understanding Push Notification Performance

Learn what KPIs to track to evaluate the success of your push notifications.

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Understanding iOS Remote vs Local Push Notifications

To the unsuspecting user, local and remote notifications might seem identical. However, these two notification types are fundamentally different in regards to how they are sent and received.

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Deciding When and How to Use Email vs. Push Notifications

Mobile push and email are like distant cousins in your family of communication channels. They share some of the same genetic makeup, but they also lead separate lives.. Both can help you acquire and nurture leads in order to increase revenue long-term.

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How Push Notifications, SMS, and Email Helped Drive COVID Vaccinations

Push notifications and SMS are a powerful medium for Covid vaccine scheduling, exposure monitoring, and ongoing public health education.

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7 Easy Solutions to Mitigate the Risks of Over-Messaging

More messaging doesn’t necessarily mean a better or more successful messaging strategy.

Development

Using SMS as a Fallback Option for Push Notifications

Learn how to set up SMS as a secondary channel to automatically reach users who are not subscribed to push notifications.

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7 Things to Look for in a Push Notification Provider

Consider these key factors when choosing a push notification provider. Look for a solution that's easy to install and use and that leads to tangible ROI for your business.

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How Healthcare SMS and Push Notifications are Enhancing the Patient Experience

For healthcare apps, improved patient communication can mark the difference between early treatment and an adverse outcome. To improve patient outcomes, healthcare apps are turning to SMS and push messages for a variety of use cases.

Features & Updates

Work Faster and Smarter with New Push Templates and Improved CSV Uploads

We've created professionally designed templates to help you get up and running and made CSV uploads even easier.

Features & Updates

Flutter Major Release

Today we’re excited to announce the release of version 3 of our Flutter SDK! We’ve updated our Flutter SDK package to be compatible with Flutter 2.2, which leverages Flutter’s