Recently we published an article titled “How to Enable Push Notifications Using Backendless in a React Native App (Android)”. Now we are going to continue demonstrating how to enable push notifications, this time for iOS devices. If you missed that article, we recommend you to read it first as there we implemented a basic React Native setup and configured a Backendless App. All the code what we used in the previous article can be found on this github repo. In the repo, there are several commits to separate the main steps. We will use this commit as an entry point for today’s article.
React Native helps you build a real native mobile application using JavaScript (for more information about React Native, you can check out the documentation on Github here). The Backendless JavaScript SDK (JS-SDK) already has full compatibility with React Native – just install it from NPM, require in your code, and go. But since the release of Backendless 5.2.x, having only the JS-SDK is not enough to access all the Backendless features; in some cases, we need to have access to native modules for working with certain features such as Push Notifications. We’ve therefore decided to create another module on JS for using exactly in a React Native environment. It’s a patch of sorts for JS-SDK.
In this article series, I’m going to show you how to use this additional JS module. There are will be a total of 3 articles:
- How to enable Push Notifications using Backendless in a React Native App (Android)
- How to enable Push Notifications using Backendless in a React Native App (iOS) (coming soon)
- How to customize Push Notifications using Backendless (coming soon)
Today, we get started with creating a simple Android application on React Native for receiving Push Notifications. Alright, let’s do it.
