Just to start I, I want to say I have read the this tutorial: http://www.raywenderlich.com/3443/apple-push-notification-services-tutorial-part-12
After reading it, had a few questions about push notifications… my main questions is, is a server required.
I have made an app that has informational content for my business… however every week/month or whenever I choose, I want to be able to push a message to all the user who have downloaded my app (every device would receive the same message).
Preferably, the way I would want to create and send the notifications… is through a separate app that I, the developer only has.
Now back to my question, would I need to get a server to do this?
We use a framework called Parse that let’s us send broadcast pushes to all users. You don’t need to maintain a server (they do it for you). It’s free for under 5 million queries a month.