Deliver push notifications to iPhones

[wtimme]

I did some research on delivering push notifications to iPhone. There's no way around Apple's push notification server. "Prowl" (http://prowlapp.com/) provides an API for pushing notifications to the device but requires the user to purchase their application for 2,69 € which does not seem like a good idea.

It seems as if we had two alternatives:

• Develop our own native application.
• Not delivering push notifications at all and only provide a responsive web application.

What do you think? Does anyone have an idea on how to push notifications to Android?

[zeidlos]

Afaik we already talked about having someone developing a native app that'll utilize the internal message center. But before we send someone out on doing this, we'll have to create some data-formats first.

prowlapp.com won't be anything I'd like to force on people.

[zeidlos]

What about using phonegap for this: http://phonegap.com/ ?

[wtimme]

@marudor mentioned that "Someone else from Düsseldorf started on an iOS version." but did not provide any detailled information. Do you have any idea about their application?