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Learning IBM Bluemix

By : Sreelatha Sankaranarayanan
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Learning IBM Bluemix

By: Sreelatha Sankaranarayanan

Overview of this book

IBM Bluemix is an open standard platform for building, running, and managing applications on the cloud. With Bluemix, developers can build innovative applications using various compute options and value added services , developers can also manage the application lifecycle using the platform provided DevOps services. Learning IBM Bluemix will take you on a journey from the basics of IBM Bluemix to working with the platform to developing and deploying of modern applications. The sample application use cases employed in the book will introduce you to the transformative nexus of cloud, mobile, and security, all enabled through capabilities provided out-of-the-box by IBM Bluemix. By the end of the book, you will have understood the benefits and use cases for IBM Bluemix, and will possess the skills to further explore the platform and thus develop, deploy, and secure your own innovative, new-age applications.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Learning IBM Bluemix
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
2
Building and Deploying Your First Application on IBM Bluemix

Integrating Push Notifications to the application


In the previous section, we learned how to create a mobile application from a template, how to customize it, and how to download it and work with it on your local Android Studio. In this section, we will learn how to extend your mobile application so that it can receive push notifications from the server.

Push Notifications is an asynchronous way of sending messages to application users' devices. To enable this, we will use the Push Notifications service on Bluemix.

Creating the Push Notifications service instance

Let us first create the Push Notifications service instance. Follow the steps given here to create the service instance:

  1. Log in to Bluemix, and select the Mobile category to go to the Mobile dashboard:

  2. From here you can add a mobile service instance by clicking the Get started now! icon in the top-right corner, as shown in the following screenshot:

  3. Clicking the Get started now! icon will display the mobile services available on Bluemix...