In Apple development certificate page there are 2 types of certificate:
iOS development
APNs Development iOS
What is the difference?
iOS development : this type of signing certificate called a development certificate to identify yourself,
APNs Development iOS:Establish connectivity between your notification server and the Apple Push Notification service sandbox environment.
iOS development certificate is that provide you development authority (code signing) that provide your application to testing environment for specific devices.
while
APNS certificate allow the "Apple Push notification service " using this certificate. you can able to use "Apple Push notification service " for more detail of APNS refer this link http://www.raywenderlich.com/32960/apple-push-notification-services-in-ios-6-tutorial-part-1 this may help to understand about APNs.
iOS development certificate is used for testing and deburing purpose.
APNS certificate This is used for the push notification service. APNS communicate remote server to apple server for push notifications.
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I am going to upload my first iOS App.I am Integrating Firebase Push Notification in my iOS App.
Which certificate i need for Distribution?
App Store and Ad Hoc production certificate is only enough for App distribution? or I need both App Store and Ad Hoc ,Apple Push Notification service SSL (Sandbox & Production) or only Apple Push Notification service SSL (Sandbox & Production)?
hope you understand my problem.Thanks In advance
This is the only certificate you require for distribution:
I am trying to testflight my app, but when I use notifications I get an error because I have a development APN instead of a production APN. My problem is uploading it to parse. First I created a development SSL Certificate, then I went back and did a Production SSL Certificate, but I am having trouble uploading the Production Certificate because It's not an APN, rather a Apple Push Services. I also created a Distribution Provisioning (ad hoc).
Apples Push Notification service is a bit strange:
On the client side:
If you build your client with Xcode you usually build a "Debug" version of your app. In that case the registerForRemoteNotification method will create a sandbox device token for you.
If you build a "Release" version of your app the same method create a production device token for you.
On the server side:
If you have a sandbox device token you can only send a push notification to that device if you use Apples sandbox Push Notification service with your sandbox SSL certificate.
If you have a production device token then you have to use Apples production push notification service with your production SSL certificate to send a push notification to that device.
The tricky part is:
if you only have a device token you will not know if it is a production device token or a sandbox device token.
if you want to use release and debug clients against the same server, that server has to use the sandbox and the production service at the same time. And you need a mechanism to decide when to use which service.
BTW: there is a nice tutorial by Ray Wenderlich which also contains a useful PHP script for easy testing.
http://www.raywenderlich.com/32960/apple-push-notification-services-in-ios-6-tutorial-part-1
If I revoke iOS distribution certificate then will it stop push notification on live app?
Should I have to regenerate new APNS certificate from developer.apple.com?
Expired or Revoked Certificates :
Apple Push Notification Service Certificate
You can no longer send push notifications to your app.
Source : Apple
I'm publishing an application with Push Notification on a new developer account.
When creating the Certificate do we need the App Store and Ad Hoc? Or do we only need the Apple Push Notification service SSL only?
App Store and Ad Hoc Sign your iOS app for submission to the App Store
or for Ad Hoc distribution.
Apple Push Notification service SSL
(Production) Establish connectivity between your notification server
and the Apple Push Notification service production environment. A
separate certificate is required for each app you distribute.
Thanks!
You need both of the certificates.
AppStore and Adhoc certificate is for the apps to be signed under your
account.
Without this, you cant create provisioning profiles and submit the apps.
Apple Push Notification service SSL (Production) is created for each app to communicate with APNS server.
Without this your certificate your server cant communicate with the APNS service and any push you sent will not reach the user device.
Our app is being distributed via MDM (AirWatch in this case) as an InHouse app.
We can send APNS messages to the app and all works find, but only when we use the APNS sandbox.
When we use the production APNS server at Apple and the production certificate, Apple rejects the message.
Do InHouse apps distributed with MDM not work with production APN servers at Apple?
The Error we get is, "Apple Error code : Invalid token" when the production APNS server is used.
It seems like your device that you use for test is not bind with server's token or bound with some errors. I'm not sure but it can be an error in your server logic or invalid certificate used. Rather it is a problem with certificates. What kind of provider you use on your server?