after 5 years of rapid development of mobile Internet, now push service has appeared in the domestic many products, such as the Aurora push, a push, push, Baidu push, friend Alliance push, etc., we in the choice of push service, the first to exclude the paid push service, focus on the investigation of free push service.
Aurora Push is our first push service in the product, characterized by the aurora only push, comparative professional, which can be seen from the documentation and SDK. Document is good, support platform, support android,ios,windows phone, etc., and have Android and IOS platform plug-in, for the Hybridapp development mode is more convenient, this is our earliest use of Aurora push an important reason.
Aurora Push The overall feeling is good, push the real-time and arrival rate, etc. are good, push statistics function is also very powerful. The more depressing is the Android version of the Aurora Push SDK is bound with the app's package name, that is, if the Android app package name changes must apply for a new key push, this is not affected by the general application, and logically more rigorous reasonable. However, our app is changed to auto-custom generated for different users, and each application package name generated is not the same, which leads us to abandon the Aurora push and switch to other scenarios. Aurora Push is free for most applications, free push quantity is sufficient, but there is a paid VIP version, providing fast push channel, rich media push, push real-time statistics and other advanced features.
Baidu Cloud Push is we considered a choice, single from push this block, Baidu push to provide SDK,API and document no Aurora professional, but Baidu is a large internet company, in the server and bandwidth, stability is used advantage. Baidu Push support notification (status bar notification), message through, rich media push three modes, notification is push message can be displayed in the status bar, can have the title and content; message transmission is the ability to push messages, and can take custom fields, but the processing after receiving the message requires users to implement according to their own business Rich media push is the ability to use Baidu provides online editor to edit HTML content push, support image and video playback, maps, etc., users can modify their own HTML and JavaScript, this feature is very powerful. Baidu Cloud push Android SDK does not have the package name limit problem. Baidu Cloud Push is now completely free of charge.
Leancloud is a relatively new mobile cloud service, dedicated to providing a variety of cloud services for lean startups, providing cloud services including data and file storage, real-time messaging, push, statistical analysis and SMS, where push services are completely free. The Leancloud product was released in 2013 and has a strong technical background, formerly the company AVOs by Steve Chen and Chad Hurley, a co-founder of YouTube, in China's cloud computing team. Leancloud's push service test feels fast or fast, with the Android,ios,windows Phone SDK, documentation and demos doing well, but I feel the Android SDK is not perfect and the implementation is pure Java, Both the Baidu push and the Aurora push Android SDK use JNI. If the product requires a holistic mobile cloud solution, consider Leancloud.
after comprehensive consideration, we decided to use Baidu push mainly, keep the aurora push as backup push channel.
2014 introduction and comparison of mobile Client push service in China
