ARAngel Roseinrapidnative.hashnode.dev·Jul 30 · 6 min readDesigning a Notification System for React Native: Preview Parity, Microcopy Reviews, and Ambient UIMost design systems stop at the app's UI. The notification layer, which is the surface users see 10x more often than your app itself, gets shipped by whoever wrote the backend job. Here's the workflow00
FSFarouq Serikiinfreecodecamp.org·Jul 14 · 70 min readThe React Native Live Activities Handbook: How to Build iOS Live Activities and Android 16 Live UpdatesA Live Activity is the card that sits on your lock screen while a delivery rider approaches, updating itself without you opening the app. Apple shipped the API in iOS 16.1. Google shipped its own vers00
DCDespia CEOinblog.despia.com·Jul 9 · 15 min readDespia Push Notifications: The Complete OneSignal GuidePush is the single feature most builders get wrong on their first try, and it is almost never because Despia or OneSignal is broken. It is because the setup has half a dozen independent parts that all00
DCDespia CEOinblog.despia.com·Jul 7 · 6 min readPush Notification Deep Linking in a WebView AppA user taps a push that says their order shipped. The app opens on the home screen. The notification knew which order, the payload carried the route, and none of it reached the screen the user wanted.00
DCDespia CEOinblog.despia.com·Jul 5 · 6 min readOneSignal Push on a Lovable App: The Simpler PathA solo founder building a wellness app on Lovable posted a familiar plea on Reddit: multiple iOS builds already on TestFlight, Stripe and Supabase auth working, and then push notifications turned into00
MMareninvybit.hashnode.dev·Jun 25 · 5 min readYou Don't Have to Watch It WorkLast time, we ended on a promise about where all of this is going. Software is starting to do more and more on our behalf, not just reminding us to do things but actually doing them, working through l00
NBNitin Bhardwajinnitinnn.hashnode.dev·May 1 · 4 min readThe Firebase Trap: Why building push campaigns on FCM takes longer than you thinkIf you are a full-stack developer, you’ve likely received this exact Jira ticket from the marketing team: "We need to send web push notifications to users for our upcoming flash sale." At first glance00
DNDamola Nelsonindaily-flutters.hashnode.dev·Apr 18 · 8 min readThe Tiny Red Dot That Wasn't Tiny Today’s task looked harmless from the outside: show unread notifications, let users mark them as seen, and put a red dot on the bell icon when there is something new. Classic mobile app stuff. Nothing00
AAamir ahmedkhaninamirahmed.hashnode.dev·Feb 26 · 3 min readHow Zomato Engineers Habit Loops Using Event-Driven Push InfrastructureMost people think food delivery growth is driven by discounts. It’s not. It’s infrastructure. Zomato doesn’t rely on users “remembering” to order. It builds event-driven systems that trigger behavior 00
ASAmar Sawantinmobile-dev.hashnode.dev·Jan 26 · 4 min readDecrypting Encrypted Push Notifications Using Notification Service ExtensionPush notifications often carry sensitive data like OTPs, transaction alerts, or private messages.Sending this data in plain text is risky — anyone intercepting the payload can read it. A Notification Service Extension (NSE) allows you to: Receive th...00
