April 2017 Summaries

Ably has announced the general availability of its "simple" push notifications as a service for all customers. The feature provides an API to broadcast native push notifications to groups of devices or publish them to specific devices, supporting iOS, Android, and Web notifications. Users can get started by understanding the push notification service overview, learning how to broadcast and publish notifications, activating devices, subscribing to notifications, using client libraries, and accessing the Push Admin API for managing devices and subscriptions. Ably is also working on smart notifications as a next-generation messaging feature.

Ably has officially released its v1.0 Realtime and REST client libraries, which include improved API, new functionality, and refinements in the underlying protocols. The improvements are grouped into four key areas: better channel and connection state management, inline real-time authorization, access to bleeding edge features, and various small fixes and optimizations. These enhancements aim to provide a more intuitive user experience and improve overall performance of Ably's client libraries.