Overview of Nokia Notifications

The Nokia Notifications API makes it easy to add real-time push notifications to your MIDlets running on Nokia Asha software platform devices.

Notification is a message that is sent from an application-specific notification service to its own MIDlet (client) installed on the device.

Nokia Notifications API has the following features:

• Nokia Notifications Client API — Register the MIDlet to receive notifications from the notification service that is coupled with the MIDlet.

• Nokia Notifications Service API (REST API) — Sends notifications to the MIDlet from the notification service without a direct connection between service and device.

The Nokia Notification Solution handles the connections on behalf of MIDlet and service for delivering the notifications.

Nokia Notifications API uses push technology and all MIDlets share the same optimised online connection, through Notifications API, to the Notification Server.

Following are the prerequisites for developing with Nokia Notifications API:

• A Nokia Developer Account is required for the developer to access the Nokia Developer Console.

• Nokia Asha SDK 1.0 or newer.