Push notifications on iOS - Which architecture?

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I've successfully implemented push notifications on Android devices using: GCM, ti.goosh and HTTP cURL POSTs. What similar options are there for iOS?

Do you suggest Appcelerator Mobile Backend Services? https://onesignal.com ? Any other Ti module?

Thanks

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u can alse use firebase push notifications service. - Shivam Tripathi
GCM is also there for iOS, but you should be probably use Firebase instead as notification service - Milander
Google is deprecating GCM and moving on to Firebase. You might want to invest in that. It works with both Android and iOS - Malik
Thanks for the suggestions to move to Firebase. How can I use Firebase with iOS and Appcelerator? This is the question! :) Thanks - Karl

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We have had poor experience with Appcelerator's push service. I don't think that Appcelerator is focused enough on push notifications specifically. On numerous occasions, their platform would mysteriously underdeliver (maybe getting to only 30% of our audience), and getting diagnostics on these events was like pulling teeth (like a week of back-and-forth with their support team to get them to investigate the problem). They never really provided much guidance in terms of best practices for client-side integration of their SDK.

We recently moved to Pushwoosh, and have been much happier with their platform. They are extremely knowledgeable on all things push-related, and they have given us an impressive amount of support in our questions about arcane topics like push tokens, ios do-not-disturb mode, android background services, using multiple push providers, etc.