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• Kaya Thomas (Twitter @kthomas901)
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Related Episodes

• Episode 15: Test-Driven Development with Joshua Greene and Michael Katz
• Episode 8: Cloud and Backend Services For Apps 

Related Links

• We Read Too
• Apple's Developer Docs on Notifications
• Beams by Pusher
• NWPusher by noodlewerk
• Preparing Your App For iOS 12 Notifications by Kaya Thomas - Smashing Magazine 

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Why Notifications Are Important

• Can encourage user engagement 
• Notify of updates and messages
• Need to be trustworthy and needless
• Onboarding helps make Notifications more welcoming

What are the different types of Notifications?

• Local vs Remote Push Notifications
• Remote Notifications are ideal for complex logic and messaging
• How Rich Notifications Work

What are the challenges in implementation of Notifications?

• Using Enums to Implement Notifications
• How Categories and Actions Work
• Using NWPusher to Test Remote Notifications
• Big Improvement Coming to Xcode 11.4
• How to Unit Test with Abstractions and Mocking

How Push Notifications Work?

• Implementing Remote Notifications on the Server
• Using Cloud Based Services for Push Notifications such as Firebase
• Using Beams for Testing Push Notifications
• How APNS works
• Dealing with APNS Issues
• Understanding APNS Throttling

How to making Notifications part of the design process?

• How would Notification make the app more useful?
• Would it help the user engage more?
• Keep complex actions in the app as opposed to the Notification UI
• Being responsible with how Notifications are used
• Stay up-to-date with Apple's guidelines

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Credits

• Steven Lipton