Why

User engagement in mobile world is a tough nut to crack. To make intimate connections to users of your application you will have to resort to more direct and personal communication channels. A personally engaging channel plays a major role in creating a differentiating experience on the mobile application. Engaging users at mobile scale (way bigger than internet itself) is a challenge. FlipCast is a building block for creating a user engagement platform which keeps the users of the app come back for more!

Flipcast

FlipCast is a scalable, multitenant, customizable push notification platform for mobile, devices & web. FlipCast is built on high performance, high throughput fault tolerant infrastructure components like spray.io, akka.io which can leverage modern multi-core hardware to support high concurrency. Support for MongoDB datasource is provided out-of-the-box.

Releases

Changelog

Changelog can be viewed in CHANGELOG.md file

Supported mobile platforms:

• iOS
• Android
• Windows Phone 8

Supported Features:

• Device register/unregister API
• Configurable push message payloads
• Automatic housekeeping for invalid devices
• Automatic/Transparent retry and sidelining
• Message history management
• Pluggable data source (Default: MongoDB)
• Automatic backpressure management
• Unicast, Multicast & Broadcast Push API
• Auto Batching for multicast & broadcast push

Library Dependencies

• spray 1.3.2
• Scala 2.11.2
• akka.io 2.3.6
• java-apns - 1.0.0.Beta4
• casbah - 2.8.0-RC0

Infrastructure Dependencies

• [MongoDB] (https://www.mongodb.org)

Documentation

Please refer to Wiki for FlipCast documentation

License

FlipCast is licensed under : The Apache Software License, Version 2.0. Here is a copy of the license (http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt)

Core contributors

• Phaneesh Nagaraja (@phaneeshn)