The year was 2009. There were only two Marvel movies so far, Avatar came out, and Apple was launching the iPhone 3GS. It had a brand-new push-notification system that, among other things, would ...

Push notifications, which allow you to receive alerts without having to manually open an application, are a big deal on mobile devices. They’re important enough, in fact, that some startups have ...

In a progressive move, Google has released a new open-source privacy library to allow developers to encrypt Android push notifications. For some apps, especially financial apps and privacy-focused ...

Design & Dev Instagram wrote its own push notification server for Android, and it’s open-sourcing it April 5, 2012 - 11:11 pm On Tuesday, Instagram released its photo sharing client on Android.

Google today rolled out a new feature for Android users designed to keep their accounts more secure: notifications about newly added devices. That is, when a new device is added to your Google account ...

Learn how to add multiple notification channels to your Android 8.0 Oreo apps, and how to make it easier for users to customize each channel's settings.

New information from an inquiry by the U.S. Congress shows smartphone companies are sharing data from push notifications as part of government surveillance.

Receiving notifications on your phone can be helpful if you’re waiting for an important alert, though much of the time, notifications seem to pop up at the worst possible moment. In Android 10, you’ll ...