Using the Cordova API: Pushwoosh

The Pushwoosh API lets you send notifications from your computer to your app running on the device. While your app is running, if a notification is received, a function in your app will be called with the contents of the notification. It can then take whatever action needed based on the incoming data.

How to send add receive a message

Let's send a simple message to a device. We're assuming everything is set up already. We will cover how to set things up later.

In Pushwoosh, we can compose and send a notification to our app. There are other ways to send notifications: this is the easiest.

On the device, we already have our Pushwoosh app running. It is written in AppStudio. A moment or two after we sent the message, this appears: