Send a silent push notification to APNS with AWS SNS.

wtf-sns-apns.js

sns.publish({
  TargetArn: device.arn,
  MessageStructure: 'json',
  Message: JSON.stringify({
    default: 'you will never see this muah!',
    APNS_SANDBOX: JSON.stringify({
      aps: {
        'alert': '',
        'content-available': 1
      },
      'event-category': eventname
    })
  })
}, 
function __notifiedAPNS(err, data) {
  console.log(err, JSON.stringify(data, null, 2))
  callback()
})

This was quite a struggle to figure out. Hope posting this helps someone else!

Hey Brian, just wanted to post to let you know it helped me! Thanks for the assistance!

Hey Brian, could you post GCM (Android) variant for silent push notification with AWS SNS also? Thanks.

I found that the only item in aps should be 'content-available': 1. Adding anything else caused the silent push not to be delivered.