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# Sending basic push notifications

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After you have developed your applications, you can send basic push notifications (without using tags, badges, additional payloads, or sound files). 


Send basic push notifications.

1. In **Choose the Audience**, select one of the following audiences: **All Devices**, or by platform: **Only iOS devices** or **Only Anroid devices**. 

	**Note**: When you select the **All Devices** option, all the devices that have subscribed to push notifications receive your notification.
	
	![Notifications screen](images/tag_notification.jpg)

2. In the **Create your Notification**, enter your message and then click **Send**.
3. Verify that your devices have received your notification.

	The following screen shot shows an alert box handling a push 
notification in the foreground on a Android and iOS device.

	![Foreground push notification on Android](images/Android_Screenshot.jpg)

	![Foreground push notification on iOS](images/iOS_Screenshot.jpg)
	
	The following following screen shot shows a push notification in the background for Android.	
	![Background push notification on Android](images/background.jpg)
 

 
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copyright:
 years: 2015, 2016

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# Sending basic push notifications

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After you have developed your applications, you can send basic push notifications (without using tags, badges, additional payloads, or sound files).


Send basic push notifications.

1. In **Choose the Audience**, select one of the following audiences: **All Devices**, or by platform: **Only iOS devices** or **Only Anroid devices**.

	**Note**: When you select the **All Devices** option, all the devices that have subscribed to push notifications receive your notification.

	![Notifications screen](images/tag_notification.jpg)

2. In the **Create your Notification**, enter your message and then click **Send**.
3. Verify that your devices have received your notification.

	The following screen shot shows an alert box handling a push
notification in the foreground on a Android and iOS device.

	![Foreground push notification on Android](images/Android_Screenshot.jpg)

	![Foreground push notification on iOS](images/iOS_Screenshot.jpg)

	The following following screen shot shows a push notification in the background for Android.
	![Background push notification on Android](images/background.jpg)

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