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Learn about tactics and strategies to deliver a better product notification experience to your users.
Smart Notification Scheduling with Delivery Windows
Timing is everything. Courier’s new Delivery Window feature ensures your notifications arrive at the perfect moment—no more off-hours pings or complex scheduling code. Define the rules, and Courier handles the rest, adapting seamlessly to time zones and user preferences.
Seth Carney
December 16, 2024
Get Your iOS App Ready for the 2025 Apple Push Notification Service Server Certificate Update
Apple is updating its Push Notification Service (APNs) certificates in 2025. Learn how to prepare your app for these changes, ensure uninterrupted notifications, and get expert tips for a smooth transition.
Mike Miller
December 13, 2024
How to Set Up Automatic Push Notifications Based on Segment Events
Push notifications have carved their own niche as a powerful tool for continuous user engagement. Regardless of whether an app is actively in use, they deliver your messages straight to your user's device. Two key players that can combine to enhance your push notification strategy are Segment and Courier. In this tutorial, we show you how to set up Courier to listen to your Segment events and then send push notifications to an Android device based on data from these events.
Sarah Barber
November 17, 2023
Best Practices for SMS Tools and Text Message API Implementation
Courier delivers easy access to the messaging providers you use, all in a familiar language and with documentation that’s comprehensive and easy to follow. This page will give you an overview of the SMS providers supported by Courier’s text messaging API, so that you can assess if moving towards a messaging management tool is right for you.
Oleksii Klochai
November 14, 2023
How to Use a Push API to Send Notifications from your Mobile App
This article dives into the topic of push notifications and explains how to use Courier’s push API to deliver simple, one-time push notifications to Android or iOS systems.
Oleksii Klochai
November 08, 2023
How to Send Firebase Notifications to iOS Devices Using Courier
This tutorial explains how to send push notifications to iOS devices from your iOS application code using Firebase FCM and Courier’s iOS SDK.
Martina Caccamo
November 01, 2023
Toast messages, their use cases, and examples
Toast messages are an established part of modern technology – both a form of messaging and a protocol for delivering information. If you want an effective marketing strategy, an easy-to-use product, or a way to redirect traffic to new features, you would benefit from understanding toast messages and how they compare to other messaging formats. Read on to learn more about the toast message and how it lines up with other communication formats, and for advice on when the toast message is most appropriate for your users.
Oleksii Klochai
October 30, 2023
How to Choose the Right SMS API for Your Project
In this article, we explain how to choose the right SMS API provider for your needs. We also cover how using Courier can help save a lot of the headache of deciding on a provider, as well as how it offers extra functionality to enhance your SMS sending strategy.
Sarah Barber
October 25, 2023
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