I have implemented APNS in my iOS application project (by following Ray Wenderlich's tutorial).
After installing app on my device I am getting an alert that "AppName" would like to send you Push Notification". press "OK" or "Don't allow". I pressed OK.
Now after running code I successfully get device token and then send that device token to my server.
The server guy is saving my device token and sends me a push message, and then he is getting message message sent successfully, but my device is not receiving any message.
It's really becoming difficult for me to figure out where I am going wrong. Some say your certificate might be corrupt. If my certificate is corrupt then how is my app getting a device token?
I am using iPhone3GS(iOS6) device (I know it's really old model).
I have been trying to figure this out for more than a week, but no success.
So guys I need your help to figure where I am going wrong.
Thanks
The app doesn't use the certificate in order to register to APNS and get a device token. Only the server uses the certificate. Therefore it is possible the certificate is corrupt or expired.
It's also possible the server is trying to push to on push environment (sandbox or production) while the app was built with a provisioning profile that contains push entitlements for the other environment.
In addition, make sure the certificate being used by the server belongs to the same push environment that the server is connecting to.
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I am trying to determine what I need to do with respect to the combination of APNS endpoint (e.g., development or production), Xcode, and Apple Push certificates in order to test push notifications while in development. I feel like I've tried every possible combination, but I must be missing something ...
Background
When using Apple's HTTP/2 APNS endpoints from my "dispatch" server, my app/device does not receive pushes, and I receive a BadDeviceToken response from Apple.
Using the exact same .p12 certificate and deviceToken with the Pusher macOS testing app (which uses legacy APNS endpoints), the pushes successfully deliver.
To complicate this further ...
When using Apple's HTTP/2 APNS endpoints from my "dispatch" server for PassKit pushes, my pass/device does receive pushes.
So ...
Point #3 tells me that my "dispatch" server must be configured properly, because pushes to the Apple Wallet pass cause a response (e.g., I can see follow-on requests to my server's endpoints from the Wallet / the pass).
That said, Apple Wallet is a "Production" app. I suspect that, because my app (from Point #1) is non-production/development, something is different.
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Question
Has anyone been able to successfully receive -- in Xcode -- push notifications sent to Apple's api.development.push.apple.com endpoint? Can you outline the steps you performed (which certificate from developers.apple.com, etc.)? Thank you!
You should be able to send development push from server:
You need to connect to api.development.push.apple.com:443 instead of api.push.apple.com:443. You can use production certificate for both.
Sending push to production server can not work with development builds - only with a build that is exported with AppStore configuration, but you can't debug those (at least not with Xcode)
If you need to check whether the production endpoint works, you can use testflight
Set development certificate from apple developer portal.
Use either production/test server for communicating with APNS.
Edit your target scheme as follows :
This will ensure that when push notification arrives, control will itself fall in the code. It might seem confusing. But here it is how it works :
- Install app on device and stop the Run process from Xcode.
- Place a breakpoint on didReceiveRemoteNotification.
- Send a push notification to device.
- Xcode will itself start the app and control will go to the above function.
First of all may be it will be a duplicate question, but due to curiosity I have asked.
I have an application in which push notifications are used, I have prepared, created all the required things for it and at last I have checked the notifications on this link: https://pushtry.com/. All are working well. NOw the problem is that, when admin wants to send the notification from their admin panel the push notifications are not receiving in iOS device.
I have update all the necessary certificates, pem files, methods for iOS 10 etc, but I don't get received the notifictions from admin panel, as per backend, when we send notifications it shows notification send successfully and showing no error for it. I don't know whats wrong going.
Any sugesstions....
First check all the validations or verifications like certificate, pem file and other things are updated on iOS and backend side. This will ensures that nothing error or fault at both ends.
Now reinstall the app in iOS, Clear all notification ids or apns token table from database. On installing the app, you will see there are few apis token available. Now open your admin panel and test again, it will works correctly.
Firstly I want to confirm which certificate you are used for the app developer or distribution.Because there are different ways for sending the notification for both(developer or distribution). Like I am using php services at backend.When I am using developer certificate my backend developer used 'ssl://gateway.sandbox.push.apple.com:2195', $err,
and when I used distribution certificate he used
//'ssl://gateway.push.apple.com:2195', $err.
Thanks
I currently have an application that sends push notifications to APNS, if I run this application locally on my computer (where i do my development) it sends the push notification without any error, however once i put the application on my linux server the exact same code with same device tokens fails to send and receives a "BadDeviceToken" error from APNS.
What would cause me to get this error on my server but not on my local computer? The .p12 certificate I have on my server is taken from my development APNS cert in my keychain on my local computer.
Any suggestions would be very helpful!
So I didn't realise that using Test flight actually requires production apps certificates.
Changed to using them and it all worked, apple should really have a different error message for that case so people don't spend all that time debugging the device token...
I have uploaded my SSL certificates to my project, focusing on the aps_development.cer.
When I launch my app, I get prompted asking if I want to allow notifications, so that is working properly. It's that the actual notification is not passing through.
My server appears that it is able to send a notification, and I am sending it to my device token.
I'm assuming it might be something with my code signing in Xcode. Is there something different I should be doing?
Preparing your app for push notifications is a long task. With the information your are giving it is not clear that what you are doing wrong.
When I look at it at first I see that no provisioning profile selected. You can't send push notifications without selecting appropriate provisioning profile.
Also what about your pem files and other stuff like gateway url etc?
You can follow these instructions to make push notifications work.
I need to test if device token is received properly (if registration is successful), notification is received and badge count is updated in simulator. I know that we cant use push notification from simulator and check if badge count is updated from simulator. But my question is, will I be able to test by connecting with my device and debug from Xcode. Or Is there any other way to check before giving a beta test.
I have got the development and distribution (ad hoc) provisioning profiles.
I checked if push notification is enable in these profiles.
I use development to debug from simulator using device.
I followed all the steps required to set push notification from app side.
Is there a way to send notification manually and check if its received properly. Since the changes in the server are not yet completed I need to check it from app side.
Somebody please help me out.
Thanks in advance.
Yes, you can connect your device and debug from Xcode. You'll be able do see if the registration to APNS succeeded or failed based on the callback method being called (either the one that returns the device token or the one that indicates an error).
However, you can't send a notification without the server side. Well, technically you can, but it will be as complicated as implementing the push at the server side (you'll have to establish a TLS connection with APN server and send a notification in the binary format that Apple expects), and probably more complicated, since you'll have to implement it in Objective C.