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Using Amazon SNS for mobile push notifications

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Using Amazon SNS for mobile push notifications - Amazon Simple Notification Service

This section describes how to send mobile push notifications.

Publishing to a topic

You can also use Amazon SNS to send messages to mobile endpoints subscribed to a topic. The concept is the same as subscribing other endpoint types, such as Amazon SQS, HTTP/S, email, and SMS, to a topic, as described in What is Amazon SNS?. The difference is that Amazon SNS communicates through notification services like Apple Push Notification Service (APNS) and Google Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM). Through the notifications service, the subscribed mobile endpoints receive notifications sent to the topic.

Direct Amazon SNS mobile device messaging

You can send Amazon SNS push notification messages directly to an endpoint which represents an application on a mobile device.

To send a direct message
  1. Sign in to the Amazon SNS console.

  2. On the navigation panel, choose Push notifications.

  3. On the Mobile push notifications page, in the Platform applications section, choose the name of the application, for example MyApp.

  4. On the MyApp page, in the Endpoints section, choose an endpoint and then choose Publish message.

  5. On the Publish message to endpoint page, enter the message that will appear in the application on the mobile device and then choose Publish message.

    Amazon SNS sends the notification message to the platform notification service which, in turn, sends the message to the application.

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