How to
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Push Notifications
Enabling Mobile Push Notifications: Android
Follow this how-to to enable PubNub's Mobile Push Gateway in the Admin Portal to send your Android users push notifications and alerts.
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Virtual Events
How to Build Chat for Virtual Events
Virtual events need chat to keep users engaged, but it's often a challenge to build a chat solution that works at scale and can handle the network load surges that occur during popular events. As a developer, you need to select a robust backend API provider capable of transmitting and receiving the high volume of messages that your viewers and participants generate.
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PubNub portal
Enabling Persistence
Follow this how-to to enable Persistence in the Admin Portal to persist all messages as they're published.
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Creating Keys
Follow this how-to on creating keys in the Admin Portal to connect your application to the PubNub network.
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Enabling Files
Follow this how-to on enabling Files in the Admin Portal to upload and share files.
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Enabling Objects
Follow this how-to on enabling Objects in the Admin Portal to to store metadata for users, channels, and memberships without the need of setting up your own database.
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Push Notifications
Push Notifications
Follow this how-to to learn more about how you can leverage push notifications in your application to better keep your users engaged and informed.
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Push Notifications
Enabling APNs Mobile Push Notifications
Follow this how-to to enable PubNub's Mobile Push Gateway in the Admin Portal to send your iOS users push notifications and alerts using APNs.
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Collaboration
How to call PubNub from Alexa
Amazon’s Echo is the market leading smart speaker and we see an increasing number of customers want to integrate Alexa into their PubNub solution