We all use our smartphones for a lot of instant messaging everyday, but sometimes one just needs a proper keyboard or a larger screen. It may be when your users have something to list on your website, or when they have to send an assignment to students. In today’s multi-device world, everyone’s constantly moving between […]
In response to one of the most popular requests from our community, we recently rolled out support for large rooms in Chatkit. Now, you can use Chatkit to create rooms with up to 500 members, which is a 5x increase from the 100 members our SDK initially supported. As a result of this new capability, […]
We’re really excited to announce we’ve added a new Pusher Channels cluster in Sydney! This new cluster, called ap4, not only allows you to achieve lower latencies within the Asia-Pacific region but makes it easier to comply with local regulations concerning the Personal Identifiable Information (PII) in the state of Australia. To use the Sydney […]
We are starting off this month with a bunch of exciting updates for Chatkit! With webhooks, you can now extend the reach of your in-app chat functionality by automating responses to chat activity within your app. Webhooks let you subscribe to events within your chat application. When that event occurs, Chatkit will trigger the request […]
This year we’re excited to announce a new Pusher Channels cluster in the us-west-2 region in Oregon, USA! This Oregon cluster lets everybody with servers on the US West Coast achieve lower latencies at no extra charge. Last year we expanded our reach into Tokyo. To use the us3 cluster, you need to select it […]
Messages you send via Pusher Channels have always been encrypted in transit to and from Pusher. But until recently, there wasn’t end-to-end encryption. With our new end-to-end encryption feature, you can add end-to-end encryption to your application with one line in your server configuration! This means you can prevent Pusher from reading all sensitive content […]
Welcome to the final part of a three-part series on adding animations to React Native app. In this tutorial, we’ll be taking a look at how you can respond to the user’s gestures and animate the components involved in the interaction. Prerequisites To follow along with this tutorial, knowledge of React and React Native is […]
Pusher Channels’ “presence channel” feature lets you implement “who’s online” functionality. When clients subscribe to a presence channel, all other subscribers are notified with a pusher:member_added event. When the client unsubscribes, subscribers are notified with a pusher:member_removed event. Previously, the pusher:member_removed could be delayed by up to 230 seconds, leading to other users believing that […]
After talking to our customers and gaining a better understanding of usage, we are updating our usage tiers to give you more generous limits. Beginning today, our free and business plans have been updated with more generous limits. This is to ensure our customers have more time and flexibility to upgrade between plans as they […]
Today we are launching a highly-requested feature for Pusher Beams to deliver secure personal push notification to authenticated users, documentation here. Your users need specifically tailored and sometimes private notifications. But current notification tools don’t provide a way for developers to securely authenticate a user to send personal information. To complicate things, apps typically have […]
Today we are proud to announce the results in the State of APIs 2018 report. 🎉 🎉 🎉 In September 2018, we partnered with Radius Global and interviewed 400 professional application developers based in the United States and in the United Kingdom, looking to understand how they make decisions regarding API development or purchase. Here […]
Our Authorized Connections feature gives you more protection against bugs, free-loaders, and denial-of-service attempts, by giving you more control over who can connect to your Pusher Channels app. Initially released in September 2018, this feature is now out of beta! If all your connections use private or presence channels, you can enable Authorized Connections today […]