Pushy Support

  • Total activity 181
  • Last activity
  • Member since
  • Following 0 users
  • Followed by 1 user
  • Votes 0
  • Subscriptions 91

Articles

Recent activity by Pushy Support Recent activity Votes
  • What is MQTT?

    MQTT is an extremely lightweight, battery-friendly messaging protocol we utilize at Pushy to deliver push notifications to Android devices worldwide. It allows us to preserve precious device resour...

  • Is there a free trial?

    Yes! Our free trial grants you full access to our dashboard, SDKs, and APIs. However, trial accounts are limited to 100 devices. To lift the device limit, simply set up billing for your account.

  • How does billing work?

    Once you enter credit card details in the Billing page, invoices will automatically be issued and sent to your account e-mail and any billing e-mails specified, on the same day each month, for an a...

  • How does Pushy work?

    Pushy is a push notification API. Once you integrate one of our client SDKs in your app, you can start registering devices to receive push notifications by calling Pushy.register(). This method ret...

  • How does Pushy identify devices uniquely across app reinstalls?

    The answer varies by client platform: Android: The Pushy Android SDK makes use of the device's ANDROID_ID in combination with its manufacturer name and model name to recognize the device between a...

  • Does Pushy work in China?

    Yes! Pushy supports notification delivery to Android & iOS devices worldwide including mainland China, and thousands of companies are already using Pushy to deliver notifications reliably in this r...

  • How can I migrate from GCM / FCM?

    Please refer to our detailed migration guides to switch over painlessly: Migrating from FCMMigrating from GCM

  • Can I self-host Pushy on my own infrastructure or cloud provider?

    Absolutely, this is possible with Pushy Enterprise, our enterprise-grade notification service.

  • Can I encrypt notifications sent through Pushy?

    Yes. If you have data privacy concerns, you can choose to encrypt the push notification payload on your servers and decrypt it within your app, using AES-256, for example. You can also avoid sendin...

  • Are notifications persisted for offline devices?

    Absolutely, we automatically persist notifications for offline devices which are delivered as soon as they reconnect, in the order in which they were sent. We refer to these as pending notification...