Hi there,
You mentioned - "notifications from my application to the device the application is on". Can you please clarify are you looking for in-app notification (client-client messaging) when running in background (aka local notification) or do you have a server-client scenario and you wanna perform downstream messaging to the app from the Cloud ( aka push notiifcations)?
Because based on your description it seems like you are interested in former (local notification). Is that correct?
Thanks,
Nakul