The Courier Blog

How to Set Up Automatic Push Notifications Based on Segment Events

Push notifications have carved their own niche as a powerful tool for continuous user engagement. Regardless of whether an app is actively in use, they deliver your messages straight to your user's device. Two key players that can combine to enhance your push notification strategy are Segment and Courier. In this tutorial, we show you how to set up Courier to listen to your Segment events and then send push notifications to an Android device based on data from these events.

Best Practices for SMS Tools and Text Message API Implementation

Courier delivers easy access to the messaging providers you use, all in a familiar language and with documentation that’s comprehensive and easy to follow. This page will give you an overview of the SMS providers supported by Courier’s text messaging API, so that you can assess if moving towards a messaging management tool is right for you.

How to Use a Push API to Send Notifications from your Mobile App

This article dives into the topic of push notifications and explains how to use Courier’s push API to deliver simple, one-time push notifications to Android or iOS systems.

How to Send Firebase Notifications to iOS Devices Using Courier

This tutorial explains how to send push notifications to iOS devices from your iOS application code using Firebase FCM and Courier’s iOS SDK.

How to Choose the Right SMS API for Your Project

In this article, we explain how to choose the right SMS API provider for your needs. We also cover how using Courier can help save a lot of the headache of deciding on a provider, as well as how it offers extra functionality to enhance your SMS sending strategy.

Top 7 Push Notification APIs

Push notifications are a great way to keep users engaged with a product. Used properly, they can significantly increase your click-through rate compared to an email blast. Read our comparison which considers 7 of the top providers against the following set of factors: API documentation/SDK: how easily the service integrates with your code, how accurate the documentation is, and whether the service supports all mobile languages Features: what the main service features are and whether it has common features for notification APIs Price: what the cheapest plan is, what exactly it covers, and how the pricing scales

How to Send Android Push Notifications with Firebase Cloud Messaging and Courier

Learn how to send Android push notifications using Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) and the Courier SDK to simplify setup, manage tokens, and deliver messages reliably.

How to Create an Automated SMS Notification System

This article explains why you need an automated SMS notification system, with an example using Courier to send an automated SMS with Twilio.

Building In-App Notifications for Web and Mobile Applications

In-app notifications are important for increasing user engagement. Here’s how a developer can implement them in web and Android applications using Courier.