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What is Pusher?

London-based Pusher supports mobile application development with pub/sub messaging and "presence channel" which supports discovery of live users of applications as well as messaging or chat room capabilities to applications, and finally location services as well (e.g. geolocation).

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Lets make the app more interactive using Pusher

Ashok Saini
Software Engineer in Information Technology at FlipPaisa.com (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pusher, by name, seems just like a normal push notification service provider, but it is a way ahead of that. Although we can use it to send Real-time notifications to app users, it can also be used to make live changes in the app's interface using just a few commands via the server.

Pros

  • It can make the app more interactive using live changes in the app.
  • We can send real-time notifications using Pusher.
  • It helps a lot in making the UI/UX better than before.

Cons

  • Implementation is quite tricky. A lot of terms to remember from the documentation.
  • Not a large community.
  • They could restructure the pricing to make it more suitable for low-budget startups.

Most Important Features

  • Its ability to make the app more interactive.
  • Integration with Flutter is an easy process.
  • Well documented.

Return on Investment

  • It helped to make the app more user friendly.
  • We don't have to make many changes in the UI, as Integrating Pusher with Flutter based app is an easy process.
  • We achieved more positive ratings after using Pusher in our app.

Other Software Used

TeamViewer, TeamViewer Meeting (formerly Blizz), Flutter, by Google

Lets push the real time notifications with Pusher

Incentivized
Lav Nandan
Software Engineer in Information Technology at FlipPaisa (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pusher is known for its efficient push notification service. We were developing our apps using Flutter and as Flutter allows using Pusher as a Widget, we chose it as the best option for push notification service. It has a similar user interface so integration with Flutter apps is an easy and flawless process.

Pros

  • Pusher allows live changes in the UI using push requests. We can also integrate it with the PHP source code.
  • They offer 99.99% uptime, so we can trust on their services.
  • Pusher works well along with the Flutter codebase, so we do not have to modify it much to work on cross-platforms.

Cons

  • Setting up it in the beginning was a little complex.
  • Not enough tutorials or good user communities out there to implement it quickly.
  • Pricing might not be suitable for all.

Most Important Features

  • Real-time Notifications
  • Real-time statistics and graphs
  • Its user interface, efficiency, and reliability

Return on Investment

  • Saves our day, as implementation is not a lengthy process.
  • Makes the app more efficient and reliable.

Other Software Used

Google App Engine, Firebase, Google Ads (formerly AdWords)

I make Real time push notifications easy - Pusher

Incentivized
Dharmi Singh
Jr. App Developer in Information Technology at FlipPaisa (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pusher came as a solution front us when we were looking for some solution to resolve bi-directional communication issues in our app. It allows pushing notifications or UI elements live directly from the server to the app. This type of live transition provides the best user experience to the end-users.

Pros

  • Nearly zero downtime, it works reliably 24x7.
  • There pricing is also competitive, as of now.
  • It is straightforward to use Pusher in various use cases.

Cons

  • Not a good support system.
  • Poor documentation.
  • Date transmission encryption issues.

Most Important Features

  • Push Notifications.
  • Tracking and Reporting of the messages.
  • Easy to integrate and manage.
  • Real time bi-directional communication.

Return on Investment

  • By using Pusher, users get a new type of experience, which is quite good.
  • Work is done reliably fast and in efficient manner.

Other Software Used

Bitly, AnyDesk, Flutter, by Google

Pusher - an easy integration API for real-time notifications

Incentivized
Verified User
Professional in Engineering (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our company had the need to implement real-time updates in our web UI and mobile app. Pusher allowed us to have a platform that performed that. Users would submit information from the UI to the backend, then the backend code (PHP in our case) would push a notification to the UI for other users to get information to display in real-time.

Pros

  • Real-time UI notifications
  • Excellent API's to integrate into your code easily
  • Documentation that is easy to understand and has good examples of how to implement the APIs

Most Important Features

  • Real-time notifications
  • Excellent performance
  • Excellent price

Return on Investment

  • We had over ten thousand customer orders go through over the course of a year with no problems with this API
  • There was very minimal support for this API which allowed us to focus on other priorities.

Other Software Used

Laravel PHP Framework, PhpStorm, WebStorm