I am planning an application that includes a membership card functionality, where the user can place an order, either in the application or by phoning the vendor. Once the order is placed, especially in the case of a phone in order, what would be the best approach to having the vendor side communicate relevant details to a specific device.
I have looked Android's C2DM, that doesn't seem to be the best method. I don't want to send messages/data to all devices with the application installed, only the specific device that placed the order.
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Android's C2DM is device specific. So in your case, when user X
initiates a phone order, your back-end could quite easily send the relevant data back to X
's device (assuming you've verified that the person calling in is indeedX
).
This data would not be broadcast to everyone who installed your app.