Real-time data push from server to iOS device WITHOUT APNS

ios real-time push
Marcus Blankenship picture Marcus Blankenship · Jul 26, 2011 · Viewed 11.2k times · Source

I'm building an iOS app which needs real-time updates from the server, and I'd like to accomplish this without polling.

Does anyone know of technologies, tools, products or libraries which would facilitate this functionality?

Answer

leggetter picture leggetter · Jul 26, 2011

Pusher (who I work for) has an Objective-C library and a REST API (along with a number of libraries) that would let you push realtime updates from your server into an iOS application.

I've also compiled a list of realtime technologies in which I'm sure you'll also find technologies that meet your requirements.

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