Web app and phone notifications

Question

As a learning exercise, i want to try setting up a phone app that would send and receives data or notifications to/from a cloud hosted server with some database that stores the events, preferably securely.
Do you have any advice/pointers to some tutorial/open source to get me started?

Answer 1

BroFar thanks, yes as I started looking around i found about firebase, but as i know very little i am asking for any alternative ideas and opinions. (At this point i would not know what solutions are possible, let alone their pros and cons)
Then i will compare and hopefully build up some knowledge.

Answer 2

ifl are you familiar with firebase authentication and API...
btw very good question.
https://firebase.google.com/docs/cloud-messaging/ios/client

Answer 3

ifl here is a short list of competitors to firebase you might be interested in...
https://blog.back4app.com/firebase-alternatives/

Answer 4

Thanks BroFar thats some reading for me to do ! :-)

Answer 5

i mentioned firebase because many here are using it pretty actively ifl