Facebook push notification on my iphone app

Question

i have developed facebook chat app for iphone using XMPP. But the app can not get push notification from Facebook. How can i get push notification from Facebook on my application?

Answer 1

Rather than polling continuously, you should try to use Facebook's realtime updates API where applicable. https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/realtime/

It's only applicable for certain kinds of content, but if it covers what you need, it'll be more efficient than polling like prasanna suggests.

Basically Facebook will send a request to a URL on your server whenever an event happens. The handler for that URL should then be responsible for sending the push notifications.

Answer 2

You can't bring Facebook to send a push notification to your app, you would have to set up a web server that continuously polls Facebook for changes and then sends a push notification to the iOS device when it detects a change.