Q:

Add Image to Push Notification

Is there an easy way to add an image to push notifications?  I cant seem to find a suitable post here about it.  
Can I intercept the message before displaying the notification so I can look at the string and look for an image url?  And then strip the message of the url. 
Such as "This is my push message with an image attached :AI:image.jpg"
But only display the message "This is my push message with an image attached"
If I see the string contains " :AI: " i know to look at a specified folder for the image name and then pull it down from my server.  IE  http://myserver/StaticFolderThatDoesntChange/image.jpg
Hope this makes sense? 

A:

Push notifications do not reference your app before being received and displayed, so no- you can't intercept them.  You also cannot properly include an image.  At best, only the string name of an image can be sent via a Push Notification. 
Push Notifications are almost entirely autonomous from your app, and are encoded in JSON, which does not support raw binary data or image objects.