Enable Push Notifications

Enable Push Notifications

Push notifications are clickable pop-up messages that appear on the mobile device. They serve as a quick communication channel to convey messages from players, administrators and announcements. Notifications may also include comments and votes on completions.

1. How to enable Push Notification for Players

For iOS:

• From your device's home screen, tap the “Settings” icon.
• From the “Settings” menu, tap “Notifications”.
• From here, find Gametize and tap into the menu. 
• From here, tap “Allow Notifications” and then choose your options for how you wish to receive push notifications:
  
  
  

For Android:

• From the device’s home screen, open the “Settings” app.
• Tap “Apps”, “Applications”, or “Applications Manager” (This may vary for different Android interfaces)
• Scroll through the list and tap on "Gametize". 
• Under the Privacy section, tap on "Notifications".
• To enable push notifications, tap on “Show Notifications” from this screen. 
  
  
  

2. Push notifications will be triggered for the following conditions:

• Inbox 
• Administrator to Player (Work in Progress)
• Player to Player
• Project Announcements 
• Push Notification will be triggered to all Players in the Project once an Announcement has been published.
• Here is an example of how the push notification works:

  

3. Important Notes (especially to administrators):

• Deep-Linking is currently not supported as tapping on the push notification will only launch Gametize Application (it will not direct to the Project)
• Notifications will not be sent if scheduled publishing is in use.
• Notification will not be sent if a project/topic is unpublished.
• ​​Push Notifications are not supported in Gametize hybrid application (e.g. Gourmet Grammar)
• Push Notifications must be enabled in the Device Settings (see 1.)
• Push Notifications are not supported on the player web (Player Web)
• The application must also be minimised in order for push notifications to be received.
• If a user is using the same account on multiple devices, only the device that has last accessed the application will receive the push notification.
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