Mobile Push

A Mobile Push message is delivered from a software application to an app on a mobile device, and appears on the device without a specific request from the recipient.

Use Mobile Push, for example, to inform your customers about the current shipping status and delivery time of an ordered product. Or send appointment reminders.

Prerequisites

To set up and use Mobile Push with Optimizely Campaign, you need the following:

An app that you created and manage.
A user account for Firebase Cloud Messaging Service (FCM), a free cross-platform solution for sending push messages.

Operating system depending on device:

Android, version 4.1 and higher
iOS, version 10.0 and higher

Get started

The following information is required for the setup:

Name of your Optimizely Campaign client.
The app’s icon in a PNG file format (512x512 pixels and not greater than 1 MB).
The app ID/package name of the app into which the SDK is integrated.
Your FCM account’s API key.
The sender ID with which the app registers at FCM.
The name of your app
The desired recipient list fields.

Complete a form from Optimizely customer support for setting up the client, and send it to [email protected].

Adapt your app

When the configuration of your client is completed, you need the following resources from Optimizely:

Depending on device:
- Android integration (ZIP file contains the executable JAR file).
- iOS integration (available via CocoaPods).
SDK documentation.
Optimizely Campaign authentication token that is generated for the app and required for the SDK.

Recipient list

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Note
You can only have one recipient list per app in Optimizely Campaign.

The SDK is integrated into the app, and when a user installs the app on a device, FCM automatically generates a registration token, when the SDK is initialized on the device. The registration token is a unique key used to identify the user in a recipient list, and is sent to Optimizely Campaign.

The app sends this user registration token together with the following information about the device used:

Language used
Operating system platform
Operating system version
Operating system SDK
App version
App SDK
Device manufacturer
Device model
Device brand
Product
Timezone

The app can also transfer additional client data such as user email address, if the user is registered in the app.

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Caution
Email addresses that are transferred with customer data are not a valid opt-in for your email marketing. However, you may still use these email addresses for reconciliation with other recipient lists.

Opt-in

Android. No mandatory opt-in method exists currently for end-devices running Android. App developers are free to offer a setting for receiving messages when installing the push messages app.
iOS. iOS requires users to consent to receiving messages.

Opt-out

If users disable push notifications in the app settings or deletes the app, they will no longer receive push notifications.

Effects on recipient lists

If the user disables push notifications or deletes the app, the user is not added to the blocklist. However, the user is deleted from the list at the next sending attempt if:

The push token is the recipient ID.
The push media field is the only media field in the recipient list.
The push media field is required.

The user is not deleted from mixed recipient lists with several media type fields. Only the push token data is removed from the push media field at the next sending trial.