How does Pusher handle delivering messages to backgrounded iOS applications

Question

Pusher seems like a good fit for what I want to do, but the only thing that I can't figure out is how Pusher handles delivering a message to an iOS device that the application is not currently running on/backgrounded. I was really hoping that Pusher would fallback to push notifications through APNS and GCM (for Android), but I can't find any mention of that. How does Pusher handle delivery to backgrounded/not running applications.

Answer 1

Unfortunately Pusher only uses the websocket connection and doesn't fall back to native push (APNS / GCM) when the app isn't running.

More info: https://pusher.tenderapp.com/kb/faq-common-requests/is-pusher-a-push-notification-service

Answer 2

Although this question is old, but it pops up on the google, so lets update the answer.

at the time of the question, the accepted answer (jcugat's) , I assume, was correct. but now, it is not.

both services, Pusher and PubNub now support fall backing to Google's GCM/FCM on android and Apple's APN on ios for sending push notifications.